A new study from Columbia University researchers found that during higher temperatures, hospitals see a larger number of drug- and alcohol-related admissions—leading t...
A new study from Columbia University researchers found that during higher temperatures, hospitals see a larger number of drug- and alcohol-related admissions—leading to worries that as climate change warms the planet, it could also exacerbate the consequences of substance abuse and alcoholism.... [+]
before going on another ambulance call at the Elmhurst Hospital Center in the Queens borough of New York City on March 30, 2020. , examined data from 671,625 alcohol- and 721,469 substance-related disorder hospital visits across New York State over 20 years as well as daily temperatures and relative humidity over that time period.
Researchers then compared the lowest temperature recorded and the 75th percentile temperature and found a 24.6% increase in alcohol disorder-related hospitalizations. For substance abuse , they found that with the same temperature increase, hospitalizations rose 38.8%, with cocaine hospitalizations specifically rising 37.6%, while there were various rates of increases for different opioids.
The results were consistent across age, sex and social vulnerability, though the increase was worse outside of New York City than within, according to the study., according to the EU Copernicus Climate Change Service and NASA, and amid scientific consensus that human industrialization is causing the Earth to warm.
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