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 ...
We examined a natural history of opioid overdose deaths from 1999-2021 in the United States to describe state-level spatio-temporal heterogeneity in the waves of the epidemic. We obtained overdose death counts by state from 1999-2021, categorized as involving prescr...
Kentucky's attorney general says the state will receive $110 million to settle its lawsuit accusing one of the nation's largest grocery chains of helping fuel the opioid epidemic 1 month ago Overdose deaths fell by 17% from 2023 to 2024, CDC says ...
Oregon paved the way as the first state to decriminalize drug use, but overdose deaths have only risen since 2020. Jan 31, 2024 State starts drug testing school wastewater New Mexico is one of the first U.S. states to drug test its public schools' wastewater for a range of opioids...
Opioid-related deaths are rising alarmingly in the USA [1]. Opioid overdose deaths have more than quadrupled since 1999 [2] accounting for over 49,860 deaths in 2019 [3]. Unprecedented increases in opioid overdose deaths have occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic with a 57.7% increase between...
Massachusetts experienced a 10% drop in opioid-related overdose deaths from 2022 to 2023, the largest single-year decline over the past two decades and a trend that is expected to continue based on early data from 2024, according to a report released Jun
Despite progress in some areas, the continued rise in overdose deaths and the steady flow of illicit drugs into the United States is proof that the current efforts are not working, said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. "I really believe we need to hold China responsible for som...
Fentanyl-related deaths are continuing to climb across Maricopa County, and a family says one of the drug's latest victims was a 17-year-old Scottsdale boy. March 20, 2024 9:27pm PDT US citizen arrested at California checkpoint after attempting to smuggle $130k in fentanyl pills ...
US overdose deaths decline slightly in 2023, CDC reports The CDC released data indicating a modest decrease in fatal overdoses in the United States last year. May 15, 2024 3:25pm PDT 13-year-old dies of possible overdose in Spanaway A 13-year-old has died of a suspected overdose in Sp...
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