New research finds that patients who visited the emergency room for an opioid overdose are 100 times more likely to die by drug overdose in the year after being discharged and 18 times more likely to die by suicide.
The data analysis, funded by the National Institutes of Health, also found that in the year after emergency room discharge patients who visited for a sedative/hypnotic overdose had overdose death rates 24 times higher and suicide rates nine times higher than the general population.
The findings, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, highlight the need for interventions that reduce suicide and overdose risk that can be implemented when patients come to the emergency room, according to researchers. “We knew
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