In addition to reversing opioid overdoses, professionals are trying a new method to get people who use drugs into treatment.
, an overdose-reversing drug that works on opioids like fentanyl and heroin, about three times a day. The area has one of the highest overdose and drug-related fatality rates in the state.
"When the data started coming out, that every overdose we see has a one in ten chance of dying in the next year, that kind of put it all in perspective for us," said EMS medical director Dr. Gerard Carroll, who said that in the past decade the emergency room saw a major increase in drug-related admissions. . Called"bupe" for short, the medication is taken orally and treats opioid withdrawal and stabilizes patients.
When people go to those appointments, they met Dr. Kaitlan Baston, the head of Cooper University's Center for Healing, where more than just treatment is offered. "We saw paramedics and EMTs and frontline workers, police officers, nurses … giving them emergency naloxone over and over and over again, and they felt like the patients were failing. But we never gave those patients treatment, we just reversed them," Baston said."It'd be like if someone had a heart attack and we immediately stabilized them, but then gave them no medicines to prevent the next heart attack. And they were like 'Weird, they had a heart attack again.
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