Grand Rounds Recap - 10/15/2014
/Prescription Drug and Opiate Epidemic with Dr. Shawn Ryan
The US is the #1 country in the world for opiate prescription drug utilization
- The numbers quoted are likely greatly underestimated due to inconsistent documentation
- Death rate from opiate pain medication (OPM) has quadrupled in the time span of 1999-2010
- Death rate in 2012 was 5.6 per 100,000
- In 2011, 44 people per day died from opiate overdose in the US
- In 2007, unintentional opiate overdose became the leading cause of death in the US for young population
- OH death rate has grown faster than the national rate. At this time 5 people/day die in OH from opiate overdose