People on Medicare who survived a drug overdose were much more likely to later receive opioid painkillers than any medication to treat addiction — and some went on to die of an overdose. That's according to a study published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Packages of the overdose antidote naloxone await use on Thursday, June 6, 2024, at OnPoint NYC, an overdose prevention center in New York. According to a study published Monday, June 17, 2024, in JAMA Internal Medicine, people on Medicare who survived a drug overdose in 2020 were much more likely to later receive opioid painkillers than any medication to treat addiction — and some went on to die of an overdose.
Instead, those on Medicare who survived a drug overdose in 2020 were much more likely to later receive opioid painkillers than any medication to treat addiction — and some went on to The researchers looked at nearly 137,000 Medicare beneficiaries who survived an overdose in 2020, when the emergence of COVID-19 scrambled drug treatment efforts.Report shows a drop in drug overdose deaths in Kentucky but governor says the fight is far from overThe group included about 30% who qualified for Medicare because of a disability rather than their age. About 80% of them had been treated for acute or chronic pain, and nearly half had prescriptions for opioids before the overdose.
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