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Emergency room visits for mental health and substance use increased proportionally compared to other health concerns at New Jersey hospitals for much of 2020, according to new data. And the trend was greatest among young people, with substance-use cases nearly doubling among those under age 18.
The New Jersey Hospital Association released a report Thursday that shows while emergency room visits for issues other than the coronavirus were down, the proportion of behavioral health concerns identified by doctors was higher between April and December 2020 than during the same nine-month period in 2019. New Jersey’s first COVID-19 case was reported on March 4, 2020 and close to 1 million people have been diagnosed since, including at least 25,000 who have died, according to state figures.