Health care support workers, social or behavioral health workers and registered nurses were at an increased risk for death by drug overdose compared with non-health care workers, underscoring the need for interventions, data show.
Although the United States has seen an unprecedented rise in drug overdose deaths, the risks for health care workers are still unknown, Mark Olfson, MD, MPH, Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Psychiatry, Medicine and Law and professor of epidemiology at Columbia University Medical Center, and colleagues wrote in Annals of Internal Medicine.
“Several factors