Overdose-related deaths were already increasing before the pandemic, but there was “clearly a very sharp uptick during the pandemic,” said Joseph Friedman, an addiction researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles. Hepublished researchin April that found drug overdose deaths among...
If the numbers are confirmed, this would be the ninth month in a row that the rate of increasing overdose deaths has slowed, and the fourth month in a row that there has been a decrease in 12-month rolling totals, the White House said in a statement Wednesday. ...
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The number of drug overdose deaths in Maine increased by nearly a quarter in 2021.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- In 2021, 650 people died of drug overdose in the U.S. city of San Francisco, a 9 percent drop from the prior year, according to data released Wednesday by the City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. ...
Coroners service said that the death rate from illicit drug overdoses has risen to 39.4 per 100,000 residents A used naloxone kit is seen on the sidewalk as paramedics from B.C. Ambulance respond to a drug overdose in downtown Vancouver, Wednesday, June 23, 2021. Over the past se...
There was an extremely mild flu season last year, and influenza and pneumonia dropped out of the 10 leading causes of death in 2021. Along with heart disease, cancer and Covid-19, the other leading causes of death in 2021 were: unintentional injuries, of which drug overdoses represent more...
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...
The number of drug overdoses in the United States has soared since the COVID-19 pandemic. A record 106,000 people died of drug overdoses in 2021, according to U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). On Thursday, the U.S Attorney’s Office in Alaska charged...