Children’s Hospital Colorado ‘overrun with kids attempting suicide’
Editor’s Note The CEO of Children’s Hospital Colorado in Aurora declared a “State of Emergency” on May 25, saying pediatric emergency departments and inpatient units are being “overrun with kids...
View ArticleCDC: ED visits for suicide attempts in those aged 12-17 years before, during...
Editor’s Note This study by researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) expands on previous work showing increases in emergency department (ED) visits for suspected suicide...
View ArticleChanges in admissions to addiction treatment facilities in California during...
Editor’s Note This study from the University of California, Los Angeles, found that the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with a 28.3% decline in monthly addiction treatment initiations. Larger declines...
View ArticleCDC: More than 93,000 people died from drug overdoses last year
Editor’s Note New provisional data released July 14 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that more than 93,331 people died from drug overdoes in the US last year. The nearly...
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The Joint Commission on June 18 issued prepublication standards for its New and Revised Workplace Violence Prevention Requirements, which will apply to all Joint Commission-accredited hospitals...
View ArticleOpioid deaths surging in older Black men
Editor’s Note In this study from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, researchers find a roughly tenfold increase in opioid deaths in adults 55 years and older, driven...
View ArticleIcahn School of Medicine receives $2M Health Workforce Resiliency grant
Editor’s Note The Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), on February 16, awarded New York City’s Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai a 3-year,...
View ArticleCOVID-19 patients at increased risk of mental health disorders
Editor’s Note This study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine and the Veterans Affairs St Louis Health Care System finds that those who have had COVID-19 were 60% more likely to...
View ArticleIncreases in drug overdose mortality by race, ethnicity during COVID-19
Editor’s Note This study from the University of California, Los Angeles, finds that Blacks had the largest percentage increase in overdose mortality rates in 2020, overtaking the rates among Whites for...
View ArticlePoll: Inflation, war, and COVID-19 pushing stress to alarming levels
Editor’s Note Two years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, inflation, money issues, and the war in Ukraine have pushed US stress to alarming levels, according to the American Psychological Association...
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