US deaths from drugs increase dramatically; longevity falls The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has published two related sets of health statistics recently that are deeply disturbing. Firstly, US deaths from drug overdoses rose by almost 30% in 2020, increasing dramatically in...
The study, which analyzed numbers from the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention since 1999, also found that while some drug-related deaths declined for the first time in a decade, including for whites and those between 18 and 54 years old, deaths from other drugs increased. Drilling ...
1 Since 2015, fentanyls have been increasingly added to counterfeit pills resembling prescription opioids, benzodiazepines, and other drugs, which adolescents may not identify as dangerous and which may be playing a key role in these shifts.1,4 The highest rates of overdose deaths were among ...
Often the substances were found along with illicit drugs such as heroin and cocaine, raising a concern that these more potent drugs "have become a part of illicit opioid markets in multiple states," the authors wrote. "Because of its extreme potency, even limited circulation of carfentanil could...
Ahmad agreed that fentanyl is a huge problem, but added that other drugs, like methamphetamines, are also involved in a large number of deaths,particularly in Western states. The biggest percentage increase in overdose deaths in 2021 was in Alaska, where deaths were up 75.3% compared to...
Researchers informed Maine lawmakers this week that the growing number of deaths is related to fentanyl being laced into other drugs without the knowledge of the user. University of Maine researcher Marcella Sorg told lawmakers the trend in Maine reflects a growing problem nationally. The ...
(redirected fromDeaths) Thesaurus Medical Legal Idioms Encyclopedia death (dĕth) n. 1.The act of dying; termination of life. 2.The state of being dead. 3.The cause of dying:Drugs were the death of him. 4.A manner of dying:a heroine's death. ...
Main Outcomes and Measures The rates of unintentional deaths from drug-related overdose during the 2019 and 2020 observation periods overall and by sociodemographic characteristics, drugs contributing to the cause of death, location of death, and socioeconomic factors were evaluated. In subgroup analyses...
Prescription painkillers once drove the nation’s overdose epidemic, but they were supplanted years ago by heroin and more recently by illegal fentanyl. The dangerously powerful opioid was developed to treat intense pain from ailments like cancer but has increasingly been mixed with other drugs in th...
Prescription painkillers once drove the nation’s overdose epidemic, but they were supplanted years ago by heroin and more recently by illegal fentanyl. The dangerously powerful opioid was developed to treat intense pain from ailments like cancer but has increasingly been mixed with other drugs in th...