1. Study: Counterfeits/fentanyl making drug use more deadly for adolescents.
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Knopf, Alison
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HEALTH policy , *OCCUPATIONAL roles , *SAFETY , *NARCOTICS , *DISEASE clusters , *SUBSTANCE abuse , *DRUG overdose , *SOCIAL media , *FENTANYL , *CURRICULUM , *PARENTING , *HEALTH literacy , *SCHOOLS , *POLICY sciences , *DRUG counterfeiting , *DOSAGE forms of drugs , *PATIENT safety , *ADOLESCENCE - Abstract
As Scott E. Hadland, M.D., senior author of a dramatic paper published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine puts it, drug use among adolescents is not getting more common — it's at its lowest in almost 50 years. But it's getting more deadly, due to fentanyl. In "The Overdose Crisis among U.S. Adolescents," by Hadland and lead author Joseph Friedman, Ph.D., the problem is laid out clearly: After guns and car crashes, overdose (OD) deaths are now the third leading cause of death among adolescents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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