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NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. overdose deaths last year likely fell for the first time in nearly three decades, preliminary numbers suggest.
Worldwide illicit cultivation of cocaine covers some 234 thousand hectares, with most of the world’s cocaine produced in South America. Cocaine in the United States According to the most recent figures around 4.77 million people in the United States had used cocaine in the previous year. More...
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The 2-year trend, researchers say, suggests the decline reported last year, the first in 70 years, was real and not a statistical "fluke". Michael McCarthy reports. 关键词: evidence-based practice heroin injection drug use naloxone overdose prevention physician behavior physician education DOI:...
The latest rise in fatal drug overdoses may have been boosted by factors related to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to findings from aCDC survey of US adults, 13% of respondents said in late June that they had started or increased substance use to cope with pandemic-related stress or emot...
While the addiction is generally the same, in the US, it carries more weight because of the statistics. Every year, from all the drug overdose-related deaths, more than half of them are from an opioid overdose. And the fact that they are prescription drugs doesn’t help the situation....
The opioid epidemic has led to a meteoric rise in injection drug use over the past decade, according to a study funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which experts say may also have contributed to an increase in overdoses and infectio
Painkiller rationing law cuts number of fatal overdoses.Reports on the decline in the number of fatal overdoses in Great Britain, following the introduction of a law limiting the number of painkillers that can be bought at chemists and supermarkets. Introduction of the law in 1998; Decline in ...
In the latest study, about two out of five overdose deaths were caused by illicitly manufactured fentanyl. Thedrugwas found in nearly all overdose deaths that contained evidence of counterfeit pills. Methamphetamine was also found in about 25% of deaths involving counterfeit pills. Other drugs, suc...