The CDC estimates that there were 75,091 opioid overdose deaths for the year ending in April 2024, according toprovisional figurespublished this week by the agency. At its peak over last summer, the U.S. reached more than 86,000 estimated annual deaths. The pace of opioi...
Around 70,655 deaths linked to opioids like heroin andfentanylwere reported for the year ending June 2024, the CDC nowestimates, falling 18% from the same time in 2023. Almost all states, except for a handful in the West from Alaska through Nevada, are now seeing a significant decrease in...
By 2022, such deaths would peak at about 75,400, and begin to level off afterward, according to the forecast. That's the rosiest scenario. Under conditions that are only slightly less optimistic, the U.S. could have 81,700opioid overdose deathsper year by 2025. If the supply of prescri...
Background Thousands of people in the United States continue to die from opioid overdoses every year. Work‐related injuries and other factors associated with work may increase exposure to opioids and, subsequently, opioid‐related overdose deaths (OROD). This study sought to determine whether OR...
Opioid prescribing by physicians and other health professionals has decreased for the 13th consecutive year, down nearly 50% since 2012, while overdoses and deaths related to illicitly manufactured fentanyl, xylazine, and other synthetic substances conti
A and B, Projection of overdose deaths by year in the base case (A) and pessimistic (B) scenarios under 4 prevention strategies affecting the incidence of nonmedical opioid analgesic use: (1) no change in the annual incidence of prescription opioid misuse since 2015, (2) decreasing incidence...
Share on Twitter For the first time in 10 years opioid deaths are down in New York State outside of New York City. Opioid deaths declined from 2017 to 2018 by more that 15 percent according to aquarterly reportreleased by theState Department of Health. The report also found hospitalizations...
Discussion In the year after nonfatal opioid overdose, patients died at approximately 24 times the rate of the general population. Although drug use–associated deaths accounted for a substantial share of these deaths, overdoses did not account for most of the deaths. Diseases of the circulatory ...
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...
By counterfactual estimation, national OUD treatment services prevented an average of 880 opioid deaths each year (95% CI=702–1084). Conclusions Between April 2008 and March 2011, a counterfactual model shows that the English public treatment system for opioid use disorder prevented an average of ...