An attempt to scare you out of your money!-----Childhood Opioid Overdoses Nearly Doubled In Last 10 Years | Time

Childhood Opioid Overdoses Nearly Doubled In Last 10 Years | Time
"Child hospitalizations due to opioid overdoses nearly doubled between 2004 and 2015, according to a new study in the journal Pediatrics.
Attempts to curb opioid use among adults have not curtailed this troubling trend, the authors say, and more efforts are needed to reduce opioid ingestion—both intentional and accidental—in kids.
For the new study, researchers examined billing records from 49 children’s hospitals in 27 states and the District of Columbia. (why only 27 states?)
They found that between 2004 and 2015, there were a total of 3,647 opioid-related hospitalizations in 31 different hospitals. (but, but, but the study was 49 hospitals!)
The percentage of those children who died after admission decreased over that time period, from 2.8% a year to 1.3% a year. (16 total)
But in the same time frame, the total number of hospitalizations nearly doubled: from 797 in the first three years of the study to 1,504 in the last three years. (Why use the "3 year" total and not show the year to year?)
The number of hospitalizations that required admission to the pediatric intensive care unit also doubled. (doubled to what?)...
The majority of opioid-related hospitalizations were for older children ages 12 to 17, but one-third were for kids under age 6. (167/yr)
And while most children had overdosed on prescription opioids or illicit narcotics like heroin, a significant number of children under 6—about 20%—were treated for methadone overdoses.
The makes sense, the study authors wrote in their paper, since adult prescriptions for methadone, a drug used to treat other opioid addictions, increased 559% from 2000 to 2007..."
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