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. It was the first time the number of lives ...
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The number of drug overdose deaths in Maine increased by nearly a quarter in 2021.
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. ...
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 ...
Over the last two decades, the number of U.S. overdose deaths has risen almost every year and continued to break annual records.
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...
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.
(HealthDay)—From 1999 to 2019, the age-adjusted rate of drug overdose deaths increased in urban and rural counties, with rates generally higher in urban counties, according to a March data brief published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prev
Overdose prevention messaging that highlights the dangers of pills obtained illicitly or without a prescription (because they might be counterfeit), encourages drug product testing by persons using drugs, and is tailored to persons most at risk (e.g., younger persons) could help ...
Sharfstein also cited the Covid-19 pandemic as a reason for overdose deaths spiking in 2020. The pandemic caused a swath of “grief, trauma, economic and social dislocation,” he said. People who may have been recovering from an addiction, or had never used drugs at all, might find thems...