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During Covid-19 pandemic, overdose deaths reached new heights


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Megan McAllister, a case manager with Prevention Point, uses her computer to check on clients’ cases in Philadelphia.
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Among the unrelenting death statistics flowing from the CDC last month, one grim non-Covid-19 statistic stood out: 81,003 deaths. That’s the number of people who died from drug overdoses in the 12-month period ending last June: a 20% increase and the highest number of fatal overdoses ever recorded in the U.S. in a single year.
The drug deaths started spiking last spring, as the coronavirus forced shutdowns, and more recent statistics from cities throughout the U.S. and Canada show the crisis has only deepened. In Colorado, overdose deaths were up 20% through the end of last year, and those involving fentanyl doubled; British Columbia officials reported nearly five overdose deaths per day in 2020, a 74% increase over the previous year; and a study released this month showed emergency roo ....

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Medical terms for opioid addiction don't always reduce stigma, study finds


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BOSTON - Opioid addiction is persistently stigmatized, delaying and preventing treatment for many - an urgent problem with overdose deaths continuing to rise. To help alleviate this, various medical ways of describing opioid-related impairment, such as a chronically relapsing brain disease, illness, or disorder, have been promoted in diagnostic systems and among national health agencies.
While intensely debated, there were no rigorous scientific studies out there to inform practice and policy about which terms may be most helpful in reducing stigma, says John F. Kelly, PhD, lead investigator of a study published in
Addiction on this topic, and director of the Recovery Research Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). We wanted to test to what extent, if any, exposure to a variety of commonly used medical and nonmedical terms describing opioid-related impairment actually makes a difference in people s attitudes toward those with opioid addi ....

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