New Mexico overdose deaths decrease for second straight year ByDanielle Prokop- January 7, 2025 New Mexico environment officials say Cannon Air Force Base owes $67,000 for August PFAS spill ByDanielle Prokop- January 7, 2025 BRIEF Longtime local journalist named editor of Source New Mexico ...
About 107,500 people died of overdoses in the U.S. last year, including both American citizens and non-citizens who were in the country at the time they died, the CDC estimated. That’s down 3% from 2022, when there were an estimated 111,000 such deaths, the agency said. Though the...
Recognition and response to opioid overdose deaths--New Mexico, 2012. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2016;167:29-35.Levy B, Spelke B, Paulozzi LJ, et al. Recognition and response to opioid overdose deaths--New Mexico, 2012. Drug Alcohol Depend 2016;167:29-35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalc...
Aims Methadone treatment has been shown to be an effective intervention that can lower the risk of heroin-induced overdose death. Recent reports have suggested increases in methadone-induced overdose deaths in several locations in the USA and in Europe. This study investigated the role of methadone...
That means there are about 200 drug overdose deaths in the country every single day, or one every eight minutes. The new estimate represents an increase of more than 6,000 deaths, or 9.5 percent, over the estimate for the previous 12-month period, said a Washington Post report on Thursday...
Accidental overdose deaths can happen when using and mixing pain medications (polysubstance use) with other drugs and alcohol. This includes fentanyl whether taken knowingly or not. It is never safe because the combination may be stronger or more unpredictable than one drug alone. ...
Unintentional Prescription Drug Overdose Deaths in New Mexico, 1994–2003 New Mexico has the highest rate of drug-induced mortality in the United States. The contribution of prescription drugs to the total overdose death rate has... MR Mueller,NG Shah,MG Landen - 《American Journal of Preventive...
New Mexico has long grappled with overdose mortality rates far above the national average. Overdose deaths continue to rise -- the heroin overdose rate in 2008 was the second highest ever recorded and fatal overdoses from prescription opiates such as hydrocodone and oxycontin have surged alarmingly...
NEW YORK -- A startling figure released from New York state on Tuesday shows opioid overdose deaths are up across the state, along with non-fatal overdoses. It's a problem that's leaving parents grieving and doctors pushing for change. Rich Pagano describes his son Nic as a young man ...
Since the epidemic began, a few cities and states have begun collecting data on drug seizures, arrests, overdose deaths and other collateral effects of the opioid epidemic. Indiana, for example, isworking on a statewide, multi-agency databasethat includes information on ph...