Gonna highlight some of this article in a thread. Thank you @headdock et al. This is a must read for those interested in drug death crisis. #polypharmacy and #polydrug is the problem #notjustopioids
dovepress.com/the-polysubsta… @apadivision50 @division_55 @APADiv28
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“It is time to take the blinders off. It is time for everyone – clinicians, legislators, insurers, media, family members, and all others, including the general public – to recognize the complexities of the issues surrounding the crisis of polysubstance overdose deaths.” 2/5
“The terms “opioid-induced respiratory depression” and “opioid-overdose death” are outdated, as they fail to reflect current realities and only further continue the errant notion of simplicity. They should be abandoned for the more accurate and clinically-helpful terms” like..3/5
..”polysubstance-induced respiratory depression” (PIRD) and polysubstance-overdose death” (POD). Furthermore, healthcare professionals need to not only better understand the issues surrounding polysubstance-use disorders, but also”.. 4/5
“to recognize that treatment of this type of overdose is considerably more complicated than is single-substance opioid overdose, and significantly more challenging than – and unresponsive to – the interventions that they likely were taught.” 5/5

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