WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- Drug overdose deaths in the United States reached 72,000 in 2017, hitting a record high and surpassing the highest annual death totals from HIV, car crashes and guns, according to latest provisional estimates released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control ...
NEW YORK, May 12 (Xinhua) -- Drug overdose deaths rose 15 percent in U.S. President Joe Biden's first year in office, according to new data published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). More than 107,000 people in the United States died in 2021 from drug...
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 ...
West Virginia is currently the state with the highest drug overdose death rate in the United States, with 91 deaths per 100,000 population in 2022. Although West Virginia had the highest drug overdose death rate at that time, California was the state where the most people died from d...
Over the last two decades, the number of U.S. overdose deaths has risen almost every year and continued to break annual records — making it the worstoverdose epidemicin American history. The official number for 2022 was 107,941, the CDC said, which is about 1% higher than thenearly 107...
Drug overdose deaths among US adults aged 65 and older quadrupled over roughly the last 20 years, show new findings that have policy implications for the ongoing overdose epidemic. "Current proposals to improve mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) coverage within Medicare — for example,...
Smoking was the most common route of use in drug overdose deaths in 2022, according to data from 28 US jurisdictions.Researchers from the Centers for
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 ...
US drug overdose deaths surged 19 percent to at least 59,000 last year as deadly manufactured drugs like fentanyl intensified a national opioid addiction crisis, New York Times data showed Tuesday.
NEW YORK, May 12 (Xinhua) -- Drug overdose deaths rose 15 percent in U.S. President Joe Biden's first year in office, according to new data published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). More than 107,000 people in the United States died in 2021 from drug...