Death by 1,000 clicks, fentanyl test strips, dual diagnoses and more

Having trouble viewing this email? [Click here]( Saturday, May 13, 2017 [Like us on Facebook]( [Follow us on Twitter]( [View on Instagram]( [Death By A Thousand Clicks: Leading Boston Doctors Decry Electronic Medical Records]( "EMRs have become the bane of doctors and nurses everywhere. They are the medical equivalent of texting while driving, sucking the soul out of the practice of medicine while failing to improve care." [Study: Screening And Follow-Up Care Reduce Suicide Attempts Among ER Patients]( A new study shows that screening all emergency room patients for suicide risk and checking back in with them reduces suicide attempts. Almost 6 percent of the general ER population was found, through a brief interview, to be at risk for suicide. [DEA Agent: Insidious Disease Of Addiction And Cheap Costs Of Heroin, Fentanyl Fuel Overdose Deaths In Mass.]( To find out how fentanyl gets to Massachusetts, we spoke with Michael Ferguson, the special agent in charge of the Drug Enforcement Agency's New England division. From Our Underwriter Isenberg School of Management at UMass Amherst [What's this?]( [Meet the co-founder of Celia Grace, a line of fair trade wedding dresses]( [Student organizers on how they built the Women of Isenberg Conference]( WBUR thanks our underwriters for their support. [Opioid Overdose Deaths In Mass. Reach Grim Milestone: More Than 2,000 Died In 2016]( The latest overdose numbers, released by the Department of Public Health Wednesday, anticipate a grim milestone for Massachusetts. The state is projecting that the number of deaths caused by opioid overdoses topped 2,000 in 2016 for the first time. That means that each day an average of nearly six men and women inject or snort a drug and never wake up again. [Mass. Survey On End-Of-Life Plans Finds Gap Between What We Say And What We Do]( A new push aims to make Massachusetts the leading place in the country for people to "write their own script" for the care they want at the end of life. [As Fentanyl Deaths Rise, An Off-Label Tool Becomes A Test For The Killer Opioid]( The idea: If drug users know they're about to inject, snort, smoke or swallow fentanyl, they'll take smaller doses, avoid using alone, and make sure they have naloxone handy in case they overdose. [Patients See Gaps In Treating Both A Mental Health And Substance Use Disorder]( Most estimates suggest that at least 60 percent of those seeking treatment for a substance use disorder also have a mental health condition. But it's not easy to untangle the two: Sometimes substances can induce mental health disorder symptoms - and it's tough to clearly diagnose a mental health condition while someone is actively using substances. [Radio Boston: What Trump's New Opioid Commission Means For Massachusetts]( [Like us on Facebook]( [Follow us on Twitter]( [View on Instagram]( WBUR, 890 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02215 [SafeUnsubscribe™ {EMAIL}]( [Forward this email]( | [Update Profile]( | [About our service provider]( Sent by wburtoday@wbur.org in collaboration with [Constant Contact]( [Try it free today](