Although West Virginia had the highest drug overdose death rate at that time, California was the state where the most people died from drug overdose. In 2022, around 10,952 people in California died from a drug overdose. The main perpetrator Opioids account for the majority of all d...
The number of women who died due to overdoses involving opioid pain relievers increased 415% between 1999 and 2010, according to a report from the CDC. The number of deaths caused by prescription painkiller overdoses in women has been growing at an alarming rate, increasing five-fold between ...
with about half being between 55 and 64 years old, Mason said. The annual overall death rate per 100,000 people 55 years and up ranged from a low of 0.9 in 1999 to a high of 10.7 in 2019 and increased annually from 2000 on, the study found. ...
"One surprising finding was the high rate of death among cannabis users," says Dr. Callaghan. "There could be many potential reasons, including the fact that they may have other chronic illnesses such as psychiatric illnesses or AIDS, which can also increase the risk of death." The findings ...
Findings In this US national longitudinal study, during the first 12 months after opioid overdose, common causes of death included substance use–associated diseases, circulatory diseases, and cancer. Compared with the demographically matched general population, standardized mortality rate ratios were 24.2...
This acceleration can be attributed to either of two distinct processes: a stable peak age, with an increasing amplitude of mortality rate curves from one birth-year cohort to the next; or a youthward shift in the peak age of the mortality rate curves. The overdose epidemic emerged and ...
Overdose deaths involving cocaine and methamphetamine also increased over the period, with the rate of cocaine-related deaths more than doubling and methamphetamine-related deaths quadrupling between 2016 and 2021. During this period, the CDC also said drug-related deaths for oxycodone decreased. The...
As users of heroin and other opioids get older, their risk for overdose death increases dramatically, a new study of age trends in excess deaths shows. Although male users had almost double the rate of drug-related poisoning in early adulthood compared with female drug users, the difference ...
Mortality rate is expressed as the number of deaths per 100 000 person-years of observation for the homeless cohort, and deaths per 100 000 for the Massachusetts general population. All mortality rates are directly standardized to match the age distribution of the homeless cohort using the ...
Rates of drug misuse deaths continue to rise among those born in the 1970s, often referred to as 'Generation X', with the highest rate in those aged 40-49 years. Just under half of all drug-poisoning deaths registered in 2022 involved an opiate (46.1 %; 2261 deaths), while 857 deaths...