MedPage Today May 17, 2024
— “You can’t just assume that somebody’s going to get care elsewhere,” one pediatrician noted
Alarming data on fentanyl, including the synthetic opioid’s staggering presence in counterfeit pills and contribution to overdoses among young people, continue to emerge, as do questions about the role of physicians in addressing the crisis.
Notably, pediatricians and other physicians who regularly provide care to children and teens are in a unique position when it comes to having conversations about the dangers of fentanyl and other drugs.
“If we look at the big picture, we are seeing, unfortunately, a rapid increase in the number of overdose deaths in adolescents,” Kao-Ping Chua, MD, PhD, a pediatrician and health policy researcher at the University of Michigan in...
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