The article reports on the increased number of overdose deaths associated with opioid analgesics as indicated in the National Vital Statistics System Mortality File, released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in September 30, 2009 in the U.S. The CDC report shows that ...
At a time when most news about the opioid crisis seems to be bad, a recent study may be a cause for hope. The January 2019 study by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) indicates that opioid overdose deaths in the U.S. have entered a plateau—and even a slight decrease. Looking at...
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...
Drug overdose deaths involving fentanyl more than tripled from 2016 to 2021 in the United States, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The new CDC data from the Vital Statistics Rapid Release Program showed tha
The researchers found that 442 (0.64 percent) of the 68,609 total infant deaths in the United States had drug involvement from 2015 through 2017. Methamphetamine, opioids, cocaine, opioid treatment drugs such as methadone or naloxone, and cannabis or cannabinoids were the drugs most frequently men...
US overdose deaths hit record 107,000 last year, CDC says FILE - Deb Walker visits the grave of her daughter, Brooke Goodwin, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021, in Chester, Vt. Goodwin, 23, died in March of 2021 of a fatal overdose of the powerful opioid fentanyl and xylazine, an animal ...
According to the NCHS report, fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid, was involved in the most overdose deaths in 2021: 71,238. Methamphetamine was implicated in 32,856 overdose deaths, cocaine in 24,538 deaths, and prescription pain medications in 13,503 deaths. Friedman said that illicit...
She said public health professionals can also amp up harm reduction services, like naloxone distribution to reverseopioid overdose. The FDA in 2023 approved the first over-the-counter naloxone products. They are now available in all 50 states. ...
(Figure) has been driven by increased use of a class of prescription drugs called opioid analgesics.1Since 2003, more overdose deaths have involved opioid analgesics than heroin and cocaine combined.1In addition, for every unintentional overdose death related to an opioid analgesic, nine persons ...
The opioid epidemic likely plays a large role in the continuing decline, the researchers said. The age-adjusted death rate for drug overdose in the United States increased 72 percent between 2006 and 2016, and now stands at 19.8 deaths per 100,000 people. ...