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December 15, 2022
Download the PDF By Christopher Barsotti MD.
Access files that can be downloaded and printed to be distributed to parents upon discharge from the emergency department.
Poisoning or drug overdose recently surpassed motor vehicle crash as the number one cause of injury-related death in the United States. There has been a rapid increase in fatal overdose since the mid-...
December 14, 2022
Opioid overdose deaths have quadrupled since 1990, and are now a leading cause of injury and death in the united States, killing more people between 25 to 64 years old than motor vehicle accidents. Mo...
October 2, 2020
On June 4, hundreds of ACEP members participated in a tele-town hall on Gun Violence and Injury Prevention with Representative Seth Moulton (D-MA).
Among children in the United States, firearm-related fatalities are the second leading cause of death and Emergency Physicians have long been on the front line and at the front of firearm injury preve...
As we approach ACEP 2018, the ACEP Human Trafficking Work Group (HTWG) would like to provide an update on the activities of this group over the past year. See you in San Diego!
The Movement Towards Violence as a Health Issue is gaining momentum! As we last reported, The Movement had released a comprehensive framework to address violence from a health-based approach. Now, thi...
Firearm-related victimization, injury and death are among the most urgent public health problems facing our country, but there exists no utilitarian set of solutions because we, as a society, have not...
Welcome to the Spring edition of the Trauma and Injury Prevention Section newsletter! Firearm injury prevention has taken center stage as one of America’s most deleterious public health crises.
October 2, 2019
On November 1, 2019, the University of Michigan Injury Prevention Center will publish a free, publicly available, web-based toolkit on the safer opioid prescribing practices and opioid overdose preven...
Those of us working on the frontline of emergency medicine are painfully aware that more than 100 lives are lost each day to firearm injury, and that for every life lost, two more are injured.
The Emergency Department (ED) is at the forefront of the public health emergency that is the opioid epidemic and often a place where patients come for issues both related and unrelated to opioid use.
Firearm injury prevention and opioid overdose prevention have increasingly become the focus of public health and injury prevention efforts within emergency medicine, and broadly across the United Stat...
October 9, 2016
I am writing this while at a conference at the NCAA in Indianapolis. Doug Casa, Ph.D., the foremost authority on exertional heat stroke and director of the Korey Stringer Institute, presented athlete ...
Physicians have unique opportunities to help prevent firearm violence. Concern has developed that federal and state laws or regulations prohibit physicians from asking or counseling patients about fir...
September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness month, a much-needed opportunity to shed light on and reduce stigma about a leading cause of death. While violent death rates have declined overall s...
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