Members of the Biden White House celebrated the report but said there's still more work to be done to further reduce overdose deaths.
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 ...
Across 31 states and the District of Columbia which had enough data reported to the CDC on toxicology reports from overdose deaths, the agency says xylazine was detected in 9% of fatal overdoses involving illicit fentanyl from January 2021 through June 2022. Of these states, Maryland has the w...
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. Though the...
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. ...
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.
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, ...
Also, 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, according to the report. "The time has come for us to treat addiction like any other disease," Biden once said in...
Harm reduction groups and other experts have been pushing for easier access to naloxone as one strategy to help prevent some of the tens of thousands of overdose deaths that occur each year in the U.S. "Sometimes when things decrease, we think, 'Oh, we're done,'...