Background: Readmission among Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) inpatients is common, as is opioid use. Opioid use for IBD has been associated with an increased risk of infection and death, but inconsistently with readmissions. Increasingly, cannabis is viewed as a potentially safer alternative to opioids, though with limited study of potential adverse outcomes such as hospital […]

Case Presentation: A 37-year old woman with a past medical history of opioid use disorder (OUD) and hepatitis C was admitted to a tertiary care center for management of septic shock from necrotizing soft tissue infection secondary to injection drug use, requiring multiple operations with subsequent skin grafting. She reported using multiple grams of intravenous […]

Case Presentation: A 32-year-old male with a past medical history of hepatitis C, intravenous opioid abuse, and chronic non-healing ulcers of bilateral lower extremities presented to the ED out of concern for possible infection in his legs. He reported open wounds on the anterior surfaces of bilateral lower legs for roughly nine months, starting with […]