As rates of overdose deaths from prescription opioids and heroin quadrupled between 1999 and 2014, opioid sales increased along with them. A record number of people died in 2014 from drug overdose, which now tops the list of leading causes of adult death from injury. More than 3 in 5 of these deaths involved an…
The use of electronic self-administered questionnaires could greatly increase the efficiency and accuracy of screening for substance abuse disorder in health care settings.
New research suggests that reducing length of treatment and hospitalization in infants diagnosed with drug withdrawal symptoms at birth can be made possible by standardizing hospital care policies across institutions.
