Intensive care units in hospitals have seen a sharp increase in the number of opioid-related admissions and deaths since 2009, according to a study by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and the demand for care relating to opioids has overwhelmed the available supply.
The team touted their study, which was published today in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society, as the first to quantify the impact of opioid abuse on critical care resources.
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