EMS Encounters for Youth Opioid Overdoses Remain Higher Than Before the Pandemic

Increasing trend among adolescents a cause for alarm, says researcher

Emergency medical services (EMS) encounters for youth opioid overdoses were rising before the COVID-19 pandemic, increased during its onset, and then flattened out, but remained higher than prepandemic levels, a cross-sectional study of nationwide data showed.

Prepandemic EMS encounters with youths who overdosed on opioids significantly increased by 29.9 per month (95% CI 9.3-50.4), with 810 and 1,538 encounters in January 2018 and February 2020, respectively, reported Jamie Lim, MD, of the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, and co-authors in a research letter in JAMA.

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