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COVID pandemic sends more people to ER for drug overdoses: CDC study

Many Americans stayed away from the emergency room when the nation went under lockdown for fear of contracting COVID-19 at the hospital. While this led to an overall decline in emergency department visits, a recent study shows weekly trips to the ER for drug overdoses were higher in 2020 than in 2019. Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention studied more than 180 million ER visits from Dec. 30, 2018, to Oct. 10, 2020, and found that weekly counts of all drug overdoses were up to 45% higher in 2020 than in 2019, according to the study published Feb. 3 in the peer-reviewed JAMA Psychiatry. Opioid overdoses, specifically, increased about 29% compared with before the pandemic. 

COVID pandemic sends more people to ER for drug overdoses: CDC study

Dr. Owen Lander, medical director of the West Virginia University Medicine J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital Emergency Department, said he has seen an increase in relapses in his emergency room as people with a long period of abstinence don’t recognize their tolerance is much lower. He speculated that more relapses happened as the pandemic temporarily shut down treatment centers, clinics and other resources. Although numerous doctor s offices relied on telemedicine to resume daily functions, Lander said many people who struggle with substance use disorders don’t have access to that technology. “A lot of these folks don’t have access to telemedicine infrastructure,” he said. “A large part of their recovery efforts has relied on face-to-face connection with a therapist or support group, and that lack of face-to-face is a real challenge.”

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