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Feb. 6, 2022 – The researchers calculated the years of life lost from their standard life expectancy, determined from the 2017 Social Security Administration Period Life Table, minus age at death, finding more than 1.2 million years of lost life among young people, with males outnumbering females in incident deaths. “This is just completely unacceptable from a public health standpoint, because every one of these deaths is preventable,” Hall said.
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommended in 2016 universal screening for substance use, brief intervention and referral to treatment (SBIRT) as part of routine care for adolescents. “Substance use has an enormous direct and indirect public health impact on children and teenagers,” Dr. Sharon J.L. Levy, co-lead author of the AAP’s Committee on Substance Use and Prevention and assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, and colleagues wrote.
