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A U.S. Government-backed website used by up to 300,000 people a month to help them fight drug addiction could cause deaths because it contains ‘invalid’ information, a doctor has claimed.
The site — called — was set up in 2019 by then-President to link hundreds of thousands of Americans to their nearest clinic for battling drug dependency.
But Dr Cara , an addiction specialist at a hospital in , rumahaladdin138 warned the site now has ‘out-of-date’ information on what addictions clinics treat, and which insurance plans and age groups they accept.
Other experts alleged the site was not ‘gold standard’, and needed to include information on the quality of care given by clinics.
But a spokesman for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) — which runs the site — rejected the claims, arguing they made weekly updates whenever they were made aware of changed details.
He added that the website also surveys all clinics every year to ensure its information is up to date.
It came as the U.S.hit a record 108,000 deaths from drug overdoses in 2021, with opioids such as fentanyl behind more than three in five fatalities.
Experts called for action, saying the figures showed the U.S. had passed yet another ‘devastating milestone’.A spokesman for the White House’s drug addiction office called the figures ‘unacceptable’.
Pictured above is the website’s homepage, which allows Americans to search for the nearest clinic specializing in treating drug addiction near them
But Dr Cara Poland, an addiction specialist at a hospital in Michigan, (left) warns the site now has ‘out-of-date’ information on it which could lead to deaths.
The above graph shows the CDC estimates for the number of deaths triggered by drug overdoses every year across the United States.It reveals figures have now reached a record high, and are surging on the last three years
<div class="art-ins mol-factbox floatRHS health" data-version="2" id="mol-f758d3f0-d216-11ec-8461-9ff482effab9" website addiction website could lead to DEATHS, doctor claims