Losing Our Way: Caring for Patients Who May, Too Soon, Become Organ Donors

The article offers information on work and expertise of Rhode Island's (RI) kidney transplant specialists and the lives saved through transplantation Topics include the persons who die from overdose provide a source for hepatitis C virus (HCV)-infected donor kidneys, and underscore increasing overdose deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic, and rising number and proportion of HCV-infected organs from young people who overdosed are being utilized for transplantation