(HealthDay)—Life expectancy in the United States has declined for two years in a row, fueled by increasing death rates from opioid drug overdoses, suicides and chronic liver disease, a new government report shows.
Rain Augustine speaks with Dr. Morrone on the opioid crisis Prescription painkillers once drove the nation’s overdose epidemic, but they were supplanted years ago by heroin and more recently by illegal fentanyl. The dangerously powerful opioid was developed to treat intense pain from ailments like ...
Rain Augustine speaks with Dr. Morrone on the opioid crisis Prescription painkillers once drove the nation’s overdose epidemic, but they were supplanted years ago by heroin and more recently by illegal fentanyl. The dangerously powerful opioid was developed to treat intense pain from ailments like ...
Rain Augustine speaks with Dr. Morrone on the opioid crisis Prescription painkillers once drove the nation’s overdose epidemic, but they were supplanted years ago by heroin and more recently by illegal fentanyl. The dangerously powerful opioid was developed to treat intense pain from ailments like ...
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Drug Enforcement Administration, and Doctor Andrew Kolodny, one of the U.S.' leading experts on opioid abuse. They say the fentanyl crisis in the United States is demand-driven by both the users themselves and the drug companies. Yet the...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s provisional estimated overdose deaths in 2023 declined about 3.1% to 107,543. That’s down from 111,029 in 2022. Two out of every three deaths involved synthetic opioids such as fentanyl, a cheap and potent opioid smuggled into the U.S. fro...
Unless drugs are tested with fentanyl test strips, it is nearly impossible to tell if they have been laced with the synthetic opioid, the CDC said. Deaths linked to natural or semi-synthetic drugs, such as morphine and codeine, also fell from 12,135 In 2022 to 10...
On Feb. 7, 2023, President Joe Biden faced harsh rebukes from multiple angles as he spoke during his State of the Union address about trying to contain a drug overdose crisis driven by powerful illicit synthetic opioids like fentanyl, that has been killing more than 100,000 people a year ...
Aspects of the CDC’s mission already overlap with many efforts in place at other agencies. In 2024, Congress allocated$505 millionto the CDC to combat the opioid crisis, with a significant portion dedicated to tracking opioid use and overdose trends and bolstering state and local prevention eff...