Optimizing the use of organs donated from overdose deaths could help to address the national organ shortage
(PHYSorg.com Medicine & Health)

The number of organs donated as a result of overdose death has increased 24-fold since 2000 and transplants with those organs have similar outcomes to transplants with organs donated after trauma or natural death. Optimizing their use is not a solution to the organ shortage, but it could help to address the problem. Findings from a National Registry study are published in Annals of Internal Medicine.