2022 Overdose Epidemic Report

Cover image from the 2022 AMA Advocacy 2022 Overdose Epidemic Report
The American Medical Association Substance Use and Pain Care Task Force continues to advance evidence-based recommendations for policymakers and physicians to help end the nation’s drug-related overdose and death epidemic. Physicians’ positive actions, however, are limited by an insufficient focus on meaningful policy implementation and enforcement to support affordable, accessible, evidence-based care for patients with a substance use disorder, pain, or access to harm reduction services such as naloxone, syringe services programs and fentanyl test strips.

We urge all stakeholders to come together to help reverse this national epidemic.

Read more in the 2022 Overdose Epidemic Report.

 

Resources

Prescription drug monitoring program national survey (2022)

Physicians and other authorized users queried state prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) more than 1.1 billion times in 2021

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