| Hans-Günter Meyer-Thompson | Verschiedenes
Integrating Responses at the Intersection of Opioid Use Disorder and Infectious Disease Epidemics
Integrating Responses at the Intersection of Opioid Use Disorder and Infectious Disease Epidemics
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 115 Americans die each day from an opioid overdose, which averages one death every 12.5 minutes. Between 1999 and 2016, the number of drug overdoses catapulted by 300 percent, with injection drug use increasing by 93 percent between 2004 and 2014 and opioid-related hospital admissions increasing by 58 percent over the past decade. And an inexorable sequela of the opioid epidemic is the spread of infectious diseases. (Proceedings of a Workshop (2018), National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, USA)