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Just out: Our new study on pediatricians' readiness to treat teen opioid addiction in JAMA Pediatrics. Overdoses now kill the equivalent of a high school classroom of teens every week across the US Brief 🧵 on our study & implications... 1/ jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…

In data from 11 ERs, adolescents (12-17 yrs) presenting w/ problems related to opioid use disorder increased 2800% from 2014-2022, w/ high 6 month ER revisit rates. Despite this, only 4% received prescription for buprenorphine, & only 29% received naloxone sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Excited to be headed to #ACMT2024 in D.C. where I’ll be presenting on the public health impact of OTC naloxone. Talk is Friday at 1:40pm in the Addiction Medicine track. Stop by and offer a comment thinly veiled as a question. American College of Medical Toxicology

I have had many wonderful airport beers. I have yet to have mediocre (let alone good) airport chicken wings.

TY WCVB-TV Boston for providing space to talk about the importance fathers have on emotional health Boston Children's, highlight Boston Public Health Commission father-centric programs, and letting me s/o my kiddos 💙🩷 Please enjoy Father's Day wknd 🙏🏽 Watch segment here: youtu.be/7XqItjS8aNo?si…

Cost remains a significant barrier to naloxone access. Benefits to OTC status will be muted unless price comes down. Association Between Cost Sharing and Naloxone Prescription Dispensing jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Pre-hospital databases (like NEMSIS) can provide valuable information on the state of the overdose crisis and capture patients that might be missed with traditional ED surveillance systems.

📊 #DYK: About 17% of people 12 years old and older had a substance use disorder in 2023. #NSDUH #RecoveryMonth Check out more important data in the 🆕 2023 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) report ➡️ samhsa.gov/data/release/2…

Additionally, I would advocate for high-quality PEDIATRIC-based studies examining the effectiveness of opioids versus non-opioids in the treatment acute pain in the ED/inpatient/outpatient setting and the development of CPGs to reduce potential bias in prescribing.

Our latest work in JAMA Pediatrics Youth with fatal drug overdose are more likely to have never had a prior non-fatal overdose, use alone, and have no prior history of opioid misuse. Naloxone IS part of the solution...but other steps are needed. Florence Bourgeois Scott Hadland, MD

Between 2020 and 2023, buprenorphine dispensing increased among adolescents but decreased among young adults, despite ongoing high rates of opioid use disorder. ja.ma/4gE8sjg

Adverse health encounters related to recreational nitrous oxide misuse increased sharply in MI 2019–2023. Awareness of the severe and potentially permanent health effects from chronic nitrous oxide use by people who use drugs is important. More: bit.ly/3G1wp6Z