Meeting
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Background: The opioid epidemic continues to exert a significant impact on our health care system. Patients with intravenous drug use (IVDU) often develop life threating infections leading to prolonged hospitalizations with poor outcomes. Traditionally, the focus of treatment during these hospitalizations is on the infectious complications with very little emphasis on the underlying substance use […]