CDC: Painkiller-Overdose Deaths Have Tripled in Decade Since 1999Quinton, Sophie
Sherman said to keep bringing the number of drug overdose deaths down, it's important to keep scaling up interventions that work including making medications for opioid use disorder andsyringe service programsmore accessible.
(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 ...
COVID-19 deaths continue to rise despite the Biden administration's plan to send more safe smoking kits and clean needles to drug users as part of a "harm-reduction" approach. NEW YORK, May 12 (Xinhua) -- Drug overdose deaths rose 15 percent in U.S. President Joe Biden's first year ...
New provisional CDC data published Wednesday shows drug overdose deaths in the U.S. fell from 2022 to 2023, marking the first annual decline in five years. May 15, 2024 Additional Live Streams Live ABC News Live Live Holiday traffic along Ravenel Bridge in Charleston, SC Live Tracking holiday...
Of these states, Maryland has the worst statewide rate: 27.7% of fentanyl deaths in the state also involved xylazine. Connecticut is next highest at 26.4% of these deaths, followed by Pennsylvania at 23.3%. That increase came asdrug overdose deathsoverall were accelerating nationwide. Overdose dea...
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. ...
Uneven results –While the CDC study shows a decrease on the nationwide level, the results when looking state-by-state show a different story. In fact, roughly half of U.S. states had a decrease in overdose deaths; the other half had an increase in this period. Washington, D.C., and...
Heroinand other opioids accounted for about half of these deaths, a reflection of the damage wrought by theprescription painkiller epidemicthis decade, said Dr. Edwin Salsitz, an addiction medicine specialist. Overdose deaths are so common that they’re driving down the average life expectancy for...
deaths from prescription painkillers more than tripled since 2001. Federal and state efforts are concentrating on arresting pill mill operators. It was mentioned that Florida became a pill mill harbor due to t...