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Commentary on Gjersing & Bretteville-Jensen (2015): EMS-treated opioid overdose--an important opportunity for saving
1Division of Prehospital and Operational Medicine, Albany Medical College-Emergency Medicine, Albany, NY, USA.
Addiction (Abingdon, England)
|October 17, 2015
Abstract:
Overdose reversal must be seen as an opportunity for intervention because of the elevated risk of death following the event. While emergency medical cardiac arrest care is a poor parallel for opioid overdose, the need for rigorous review and fiscally prudent solutions is similar. Efforts must be made to look for solutions to prevent and treat future overdose specifically in the population that has had an overdose event.