Anyone who uses prescription opioids or illegal opioids are at risk for an overdose.
Increased Risk Factors include:
- A person accidentally or deliberately takes an extra dose or misuses a prescription opioid
- A person receiving more than one opioid medication prescription
- A person who takes opioid medications prescribed for someone else
- A person who combines opioids-prescribed or illicit-with alcohol, certain other medications, and even some over-the-counter products that depress breathing, heart rate, and other functions of the central nervous systems
- A person injecting opioids with a needle
- A person prescribed opioids with a history of addiction
- A person with addiction to opioids recently released from detoxification, incarceration, or treatment