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Overdoses in Volusia County drop after hospitals partner with treatment counselors
Counselors getting to addicts at their hospital bed
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VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. – Larry Brooks has spent the last 12 months racing to Halifax Health Daytona Beach, the hospital across the street from where he works at SMA Healthcare, trying to get to every addict that came in on a stretcher after overdosing.
But lately, the pace has slowed.
Brooks is a certified recovery peer specialist, uniquely qualified as a recovering addict himself to speak with the addicts, if they agree, and offer a second chance: a comprehensive treatment program at SMA.
The last normal thing Dr. Asal Johnson did before the COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc in Florida was stand at the front of her classroom at Stetson University with a room full of students.
“I very much miss the environment when we could all work together in class,” said the epidemiology professor. “I find it very challenging and time-consuming to teach subjects such as epidemiology or statistics through Zoom.”
March 7 marked the one-year anniversary of the first case of coronavirus in Volusia County reported on a Saturday night during the first weekend of Bike Week. (It turned out the person never made it to Bike Week, but was in St. Johns County.) The first two cases in Florida were reported on March 1 in Hillsborough and Manatee counties.
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Firefighters and paramedics with the Anne Arundel County Fire Department in Maryland wear enhanced PPE, during the coronavirus pandemic, as they transport a patient after responding to a call for a cardiac arrest as a result of a drug overdose on May 6, 2020.
When the pandemic hit, visits to hospital emergency departments plummeted by more than 40%. People were scared of catching the coronavirus.
But Kristin Holland, a researcher at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, found patients experiencing drug-related crises needed help so desperately they kept coming. All overdoses and opioid overdoses.those were the only two [categories] for which we saw an increase, Holland said.
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