Naloxone prescriptions among patients with a substance use disorder and a positive fentanyl urine drug screen presenting to the emergency department.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Over 109,000 people in the USA died from a drug overdose in 2022. More alarming is the amount of drug overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids other than methadone (SOOM), primarily fentanyl. From 2015 to 2020, the number of drug overdose deaths from SOOM increased 5.9-fold. SOOM are commonly being found in many other drugs without the user's knowledge. Given the alarming number of overdose deaths from illicit drugs with SOOM, naloxone should be prescribed for all persons using illicit drugs regardless of if they knowingly use opioids. How often providers prescribe naloxone for these patients remains unknown. The aim of this study is to determine the rate of naloxone prescriptions given to patients with any substance use disorder, including when the patient has a urin

SUBMITTER: Ali SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10552257 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature