About 5,000 Texans died of a drug overdose last year. But researchers say up to 70% of overdoses – most of which are nonfatal – go unreported in the state. | via TexasStandard
, the lead researcher of the TxCOPE project and assistant professor at UT’s Dell Medical School and Steve Hicks School of Social Work, shares more about the project.Texas Standard: There isn’t an official way that national agencies track non-fatal overdoses. Could you tell us a little bit about what TxCOPE hopes to do and how it might fill the gap? Absolutely.
With self-reporting, there’s always a question of ‘how reliable is the data?’ How do you deal with that? Our data is atrocious at the national level. The Office of National Drug Control Policy actually released last Friday a statement through the Journal of the American Medical Association highlighting our severity of data gaps across the United States nationally.
Nationally, they do track it; the CDC has a great tracking system. Traditional surveillance methods have used EMS data and emergency department data related to overdose, as well as medical examiner office data.
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