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Rising stimulant overdoses pose a growing public health threat because, unlike opioids, they lack simple, widely recognized reversal treatments.
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Stimulant overdoses on the rise as opioid deaths decline, but treatment is complex
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More people recognize opioid overdoses, but education about stimulant overdoses hasn’t been as clear-cutOverdoses involving stimulants are on the rise in many parts of the country, according to recently available data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but experts say recognizing and responding to them is more complex when compared with opioid overdoses.“The rate of overdose decline was not nearly what we expected” in California, said Dr Taylor Nichols, an emergency and addiction medicine physician based in Sacramento. Continue reading...
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