Disparities in Treatment and Referral After an Opioid Overdose Among Emergency Department Patients.

ABSTRACT: There is a disproportionately high rate of overdose deaths immediately following an emergency department (ED) visit for opioid overdose. Thus, an improved understanding of disparities in ED treatment and referral is vital. Racial and ethnic disparities in access to naloxone and buprenorphine have been described in the outpatient setting but prevalence in the ED setting remains understudied. To examine racial and ethnic disparities in treatment referral rates in ED patients with opioid overdose. This is a secondary analysis of a prospective consecutive cohort from the Toxicology Investigators Consortium (TOXIC) Fentalog Study from September 21, 2020, to November 11, 2023. Ten hospital sites were a part of the TOXIC network and participants included ED patients in aged 18 years or older with

SUBMITTER: Shastry S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12223876 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature