Hospital pediatrics
Pediatric Emergency Department Visits for Opioid Overdose in the United States.
Gabriel Devlin, Mia Kanak, Matt Hall, Diane Tanaka, Jenny Bohorquez, Megan Gribbons, Pradip P Chaudhari
Published: 202610.1542/hpeds.2025-008620
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Fatal opioid overdoses among children have increased 4-fold since 2018, driven by unintentional fentanyl overdoses in adolescents. Detailed descriptions profiling nonfatal overdoses that present to emergency departments (EDs) amidst this…
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