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Rutgers gets $2.9 million to study youth overdose trends
Rutgers researchers received a $2.9 million grant for a five-year study of drug overdoses among young people in the United States.
The team will examine national Medicaid data for people ages 12 to 29 who have overdosed since 2016.
The study will look at which drugs were involved, whether overdoses were intentional, and what care patients received afterward.
Researchers will assess whether follow-up treatment is linked to fewer repeat overdoses and deaths.
Many people survive an overdose, but available data provide limited information about their care after leaving hospital.
The findings are intended to help clinicians improve post-overdose care and prevent future harm.
Rutgers researchers received a $2.9 million grant to study drug overdose trends among adolescents and young adults.
The five-year study will examine national Medicaid data for people ages 12 to 29 who experienced an overdose since 2016.
Researchers will assess overdose types, care received afterward, and whether treatment is linked to lower risks of repeat overdose and death.
The project aims to inform post-overdose interventions and help prevent future overdoses and deaths.
- Who
- Rutgers researchers Hillary Samples and Greta Bushnell will lead the study.
- What
- They will study overdose trends and post-overdose care among adolescents and young adults.
- When
- The study will run for five years. It will examine data on overdoses since 2016.
- Where
- Rutgers researchers will analyze national Medicaid data from the United States.
- Why
- Researchers aim to inform post-overdose interventions and prevent future overdoses and deaths.
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The study will examine Medicaid data on adolescents and young adults who experienced an overdose since this year.
News-Medical reported that Rutgers researchers received a $2.9 million grant for a five-year study.
- Grant
- $2.9 million
- Study duration
- Five years
- Age range
- 12 to 29
- Data period
- Overdoses since 2016
- Funding source
- National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health
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The goal of this research is to inform strategies used by clinicians that will improve post-overdose interventions and prevent future overdoses and deaths in this vulnerable population.