Nearly 18% of Medicare beneficiaries who experienced an opioid overdose had a second overdose, according to new research results, which also looked at identifying effective interventions and significant gaps in care.
Researchers from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Drug Abuse, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), and the CDC found that among a cohort of 137,000 Medicare