Overdose-related cardiac arrests observed by emergency medical services during COVID-19 pandemic

What The Study Did: Emerging changes in overdose-related cardiac arrests in the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic are described in this observational study using a large national emergency medical services database.

Authors: Joseph Friedman, M.P.H., of the University of California, Los Angeles, is the corresponding author.

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(doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2020.4218)

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