As overdose deaths rise, few emergency rooms offer addiction help https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/121022_emergency_addiction_help/as-overdose-deaths-rise-few-emergency-rooms-offer-addiction-help/
Last year, 109,000 people died from a drug overdose, more than double the number in 2015, and though medical professionals have long argued that buprenorphine should be available in every emergency room in the country, adoption of the practice has been sluggish.
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