CHICAGO (CBS) --Opioid overdose deaths in Cook County largely remained steady in 2023, likely to fall just short ofthe record set in 2022. The Cook County Medical Examiner's office said preliminary data from 2023 show 1,540 confirmed opioid overdose deaths, with another 400 pending cases like...
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
Discussion: The findings of this brief report provide insight into the role that mitragynine (kratom) may have in modulating risk of opioid-related deaths. The combined use of kratom with opioids such as fentanyl appears most likely to increase the risk of a fatal ove...
Almost all states, except for a handful in the West from Alaska through Nevada, are now seeing a significant decrease in overdose death rates. Earlydatafrom Canada also suggests overdose deaths there might now be slowing off of a peak in 2023 too. "While these data are cause for optimism, ...
Opioid overdose mortality among young adults in Australia has increased consistently over the past several decades. Among Australian adults aged 15-44 years, the number of these deaths has increased from six in 1964 to 600 in 1997. The rate (per million adults in this age group) increased 55...
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
The first installment of a series where WECT Investigates where we’ve been, where we are, and where we’re going in the battle against opioid addiction. Opioid Epidemic North Carolina officials cite drop in opioid overdose deaths Updated: Aug. 30, 2019 at 6:28 PM GMT+8 ...
Prevention Science (2023) 24 (Suppl 1):S88–S98 S89 While most attention to opioid misuse and opioid-involved overdose deaths in the USA has focused on White populations in rural areas, AI/AN populations have opioid overdose deaths at equal or greater levels (Ahmad et al., 2021). ...
Opioid overdose deaths rose fivefold among US women in 10 years.doi:10.1136/bmj.f4415MichaelMcCarthyBMJ (Clinical research ed.)McCarthy M. Opioid overdose deaths rose fivefold among US women in 10 years. BMJ 2013;347: f4415.
In 2021 opioid overdoses killed 80,000 Americans, according to data from the Centres for Disease Control, a government agency. The figures from Cook County suggest that cities are now being hit hard too, as are ethnic minorities. Of deaths in Cook County last year, a majority were African-...