Spike in fatal teen ODs shows need for education on fentanyl risks, access to Narcan

Overdose-reversal drug

Teens – and parents and schools -- need widespread access to naloxone, the overdose-reversal agent, and communities must provide expanded services for adolescent mental health and substance use treatment, said Joseph Friedman, the lead author of “The Overdose Crisis among U.S. Adolescents,” published this year in the New England Journal of Medicine.Mark Graves/The Oregonian

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Fentanyl is now involved in at least 75% of adolescent overdose deaths, new research shows.

Many of the overdoses occur among teens who are experimenting with drugs and don’t have long-standing addiction to opioids, said Joseph Friedman, the lead author of “The Overdose Crisis among U.S. Adolescents,” published this year in The New England Journal of Medicine.

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