Researcher’s Work from Philadelphia Focuses on Opioids (Ingestion of Illicit Substances by Young Children Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic): Opioids
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According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “There was no association between medicinal or recreational cannabis legalization and the rate of cannabis ingestion encounters. Conclusions and Relevance: In this study of illicit substance ingestions in young children before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, there was an immediate and sustained increase in illicit substance ingestions during the pandemic. Additional studies are needed to contextualize these findings in the setting of pandemic-related stress and to identify interventions to prevent ingestions in face of such stress, such as improved parental mental health and substance treatment services, accessible childcare, and increased substance storage education.”
For more information on this research see: Ingestion of Illicit Substances by Young Children Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic. JAMA Network Open, 2023,6(4). (JAMA Network Open - https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen). The publisher for JAMA Network Open is
A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.9549.
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