Fentanyl continues to drive the majority of overdose deaths in the country.May 11, 2022, 4:04 PM UTC By Berkeley Lovelace Jr. More than 107,600 Americans died from drug overdoses last year, the highest annual death toll on record, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said ...
Drug overdose deaths decreased last year for the first time since 2018, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The amount of drug deaths from drug overdoses decreased by 3 percentage points between 2022 and 2023. More than 107,000 overdose deaths were recorded ...
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.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicate that drug overdose deaths have dropped for the first time since 1990. Between the 12-month period ending December 2017 and the 12-month period ending December 2018, there was a 5.1 decline in overdose deaths. Now the bad news: Experts...
Colorado's rate of drug overdose deaths has nearly doubled over the last 4 years, fueled mainly by fentanyl.
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 Pam Bondi confirmation hearing for Attorney General Live Marco Rubio confirmat...
Drug overdose deaths are now at an all-time high, and they’re increasing faster in Wyoming than almost anywhere else.
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The number of drug overdose deaths in Maine increased by nearly a quarter in 2021.
In 2021 there were 650 overdose deaths in the city, compared to 700 in 2020 -- marking the first time overdose deaths have declined in the city since 2018 -- according to preliminary data from the city's Medical Examiner's Office.
In this article, we argue that the rapid rise in drug overdose deaths in America is a tragedy that draws attention to fundamental conceptual and experimental problems in addiction science that have significant human consequences. Despite enormous economic investment, political support and claims to have...