Overall suicide rates in Cook County have remained consistent. Males continue to make up more than 3/4 of suicide deaths. *Preliminary data
Almost all states, except for a handful in the West from Alaska through Nevada, are now seeing a significant decrease in overdose death rates. Early data from Canada also suggests overdose deaths there might now be slowing off of a peak in 2023 too. "While these data are cause for optimism...
Prescription opioid death rates are greater for females than malesIwanickiJanetta L.Le LaitM.C.SevertsonStevan G.Bucher-BartelsonBeckiDartRichard C.DRUG AND ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE
Opioid-related overdose death rates among males decreased from 2022 to 2023, a change driven by a 16% decrease in the death rate among white, non-Hispanic males, the only race and ethnicity to see a significant change, according to the report. "In comparison, opioid-related overdose death r...
Rhode Island has relatively easy access to low-barrier treatment programs, a high per-capita rate of opioid treatment programs, and a robust treatment infrastructure for its incarcerated population. These programs likely contributed to the recent7.3% declinein overdose death rates in 2023 from 2022 ...
In the 20-year span, 79,893 people in the U.S. aged 55 to 80 died by opioid overdose, with about half being between 55 and 64 years old, Mason said. The annual overall death rate per 100,000 people 55 years and up ranged from a low of 0.9 in 1999 to a high of 10.7 in 2019...
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After identifying all drug-related deaths between 1999 and 2010, CDC researchers categorized the drugs involved in each death as prescription drugs, prescription opioid painkillers, benzodiazepines, antidepressants, heroin, and/or cocaine. A total of 15,323 women died due to drug overdose in 2010. ...
Drug Overdose Death Rates. National Institute on Drug Abuse. Accessed March 3, 2023. https://nida.nih.gov/research-topics/trends-statistics/overdose-death-rates See More About Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacology Emergency Medicine Substance Use and Addiction Medicine Opioids Pharmacy and Clinical Pharmaco...
treatment and recovery support efforts are essential to sustain and improve upon these reductions in death rates. With more than 80,000 American lives lost each year4due to an opioid overdose, expanding access to life-saving treatments like NARCAN®Nasal Spray and providing education on how to ...