Integrating Responses at the Intersection of Opioid Use Disorder and Infectious Disease Epidemics
Proceedings of a Workshop
by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Anna Nicholson
Description
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.
To address these infectious disease consequences of the opioid crisis, a public workshop titled Integrating Infectious Disease Considerations with Response to the Opioid Epidemic was convened on March 12 and 13, 2018, by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Participants discussed strategies to prevent and treat infections in people who inject drugs, especially ways to work efficiently though the existing public health and medical systems. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.
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- Publisher National Academies Press
- Publication Date April 2019
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9780309477949 / 0309477948
- Publication Country or regionUnited States
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 60 USD
- Pages174
- ReadershipProfessional and scholarly
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions9 X 6 inches
- Reference Code10.17226/25153
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