New Data on Opioids for Chronic Pain: Less Than Meets the Eye?
“Prescription Opioid Use Among Adults With Chronic Pain: United States, 2019,” the government report’s title reads. Inside, based on responses from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) that year, it says, “22.1% of U.S. adults with chronic pain used a prescription opioid in the past 3 months.” Given that there might be no hotter topic […]
Emergency department visits related to opioid overdoses up significantly during COVID-19 pandemic
Emergency department visit rates because of an opioid overdose increased by 28.5% across the U.S. in 2020, compared to 2018 and 2019, recent Mayo Clinic research finds. Emergency visits overall decreased by 14% last year, while visits because of an opioid overdose increased by 10.5%. The result: Opioid overdoses were responsible for 0.32 out of […]