New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics shows which U.S. states saw the greatest decrease in overdose deaths between 2022 and 2023. During that time, drug overdose deaths decreased by 4% nationwide, marking the first time overdose ...
Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health, emphasized there will likely still be "nearly 100,000" overdose deaths in the United States this year. "If we've learned anything over the past decade, it's that there is not one single...
The data shows that overdose deaths involving opioids fell from an estimated 84,181 in 2022 to 81,083 in 2023. While the majority of overdose deaths in 2023 were due to synthetic opioids, such as fentanyl, there was a decrease from 2022. An estimated 76,226 deaths ...
The data shows that overdose deaths involving opioids fell from an estimated 84,181 in 2022 to 81,083 in 2023. While the majority of overdose deaths in 2023 were due to synthetic opioids, such as fentanyl, there was a decrease from 2022. An estimated 76,226 deaths ...
NEW YORK, May 12 (Xinhua) -- Drug overdose deaths rose 15 percent in U.S. President Joe Biden's first year in office, according to new data published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). More than 107,000 people in the United States died in 2021 from drug...
The rate of drug overdose deaths has slowed from record-high levels, according to provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC estimated that there have been 107,735 predicted overdose deaths in the 12-month period that ended on July 2022. If the numbers ...
NEW YORK, May 12 (Xinhua) -- Drug overdose deaths rose 15 percent in U.S. President Joe Biden's first year in office, according to new data published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). More than 107,000 people in the United States died in 2021 from drug...
CDC reports historic rise in overdose deaths, particularly in underrepresented groupsA new report from the CDC showed that overdose death rates jumped in 2020, especially for people in underrepresented racial and ethnic groups. CDC officials said the historic increase was largely driven by fentanyl....
About 107,500 people died of overdoses in the U.S. last year, including both American citizens and non-citizens who were in the country at the time they died, the CDC estimated. That’s down 3% from 2022, when there were an estimated 111,000 such deaths, the agency said. ...
CDC report highlights role of stimulants in overdose deathsCDC report highlights role of stimulants in overdose deathsIt''s essential to pay attention to other substances, even in the midst of an opioid epidemic, especially when stimulants such as cocaine are being mixed with illicit fentanyl, ...