A chief consultant family physician, past President of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) and current President of Commonwealth Medical Association (CMA), Dr. Osahon Enabulele
Opioid Crisis: How COVID-19 Has Accelerated Addiction Risk
What happens when two epidemics meet? The opioid epidemic has been one of the most growing public health emergencies in American history. As such, it wasn’t long before the top two public health emergencies met and created a bigger crisis.
According to
provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released in December last year, over 81 003 drug overdose deaths occurred in the United States in the 12 months ending in May 2020 with a 24% nationwide increase in mortality from overdoses – this was around the time when the strictest lockdown measures were in effect.