OPIOID USE DISORDER PLAYS SIGNIFICANT ROLE IN MANY SEPSIS CASES
About 30,000 to 40,000 opioid use disorder patients are hospitalized with sepsis each year.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
People who inject opioids are at risk of infections that can lead to sepsis, including skin infections, soft tissue infections, and blood stream infections.
Even people who use oral opioids can develop sepsis because overdoses can lead to pneumonia, and pneumonia is a common cause of sepsis.
Diagnosing sepsis in an opioid use disorder patient can be difficult because the signs of sepsis are similar to the symptoms of opioid withdrawal.
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