Fentanyl overdoses hitting the elderly
UC expert featured in Jacksonville's News4Jax report
The University of Cincinnati's Daniel Arendt was featured in Jacksonville news station News4Jax story on the increase in fentanyl overdose deaths in seniors.
The station reported fentanyl deaths among the elderly have increased by 9,000% over the past eight years.
"The overdose crisis has continually gotten worse,” said Arendt, PharmD, associate professor in UC's James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy and a UC/UC Health Addiction Center member. "And it’s still a public health epidemic."
Read or watch the News4Jax story.
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