(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 ...
CDC: Drug Overdoses Spike Among Middle-Aged WomenMike StobbeAP Medical Writer
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Treating and screening for non-substance-related mental health disorders could help drive down overdoses, a new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found. Thestudyfound that of the 63,424 people who died fromdrug overdosesacross 43 states an...
The report found that drug overdose death rates increased with higher county-level income inequality, particularly among Black people. Scars caused by daily drug injections are seen on the arms of 65-year-old Lorando Duncan, as he sits in his apartment in Washington,...
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...
Nearly 108,000 Americans died ofdrug overdosesin 2022, according to final federal figures released Thursday by theCenters for Disease Control and Prevention. Over the last two decades, the number of U.S. overdose deaths has risen almost every year and continued to break annual records — making...
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...
'Flags of Hope' to honor and remember those lost to drug overdoses as many Edmontonians gathered at Victoria Park this evening to mark the annual International Overdose Awareness Day, on August 31, 2023, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. (Photo by Artur ...
During the pandemic, deaths from accidents, overdoses, alcoholism and homicide all soared, as did deaths from hypertension, heart disease and diabetes... The CDC data show the rate of non-Covid excess deaths in the first half of 2022 was even higher than 2020 or 2021. These deaths therefo...
Survey on suspected overdose according to prescribing medical institution and chronic kidney disease stage Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) have a high risk of renal adverse events from drugs excreted by the kidney, and caution is needed when using the... K Hayakawa,S Mitsuboshi,H Sutou...