Members of the Biden White House celebrated the report but said there's still more work to be done to further reduce overdose deaths.
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...
Deaths involving psychostimulants with abuse potential other than cocaine (largely methamphetamine) were identified using code T43.6. Age-adjusted, sex- and race and ethnicity–specific overdose death rates were computed for overall drug, fentanyl, and methamphetamine with or without fentanyl among ...
West Virginia is currently the state with the highest drug overdose death rate in the United States, with 91 deaths per 100,000 population in 2022. Although West Virginia had the highest drug overdose death rate at that time, California was the state where the most people died from d...
The Wyoming Department of Health just released their Death, Birth, Marriage and Divorce Totals for 2023. Deaths caused by overdoses increased for the sixth year in a row. In 2023, there were 120 overdose deaths recorded among Wyoming residents compared to 110 in 2022. Previously, there were ...
The age-adjusted rate of drug overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids other than methadone (drugs such asfentanyl,fentanyl analogs, and tramadol) increased by 45% between 2016 and 2017, from 6.2 to 9.0 per 100,000 respectively. The 10 drugs most commonly associated with overdose deaths fall ...
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
That includes the first reduction in OD deaths caused by powerful synthetic opioids likefentanyland tramadol, researchers said. “The age-adjusted rate for drug overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids other than methadone decreased from 2022 to 2023, the first such decrease s...
The proportion of all deaths in adults in this age group caused by opioid overdose increased from 0.1% in 1964 to 7.3% in 1997. The magnitude of the increase makes it unlikely to be an artefact of changes in diagnosis, especially as similar increases have also been observed in other ...
“We still have an extraordinary number of overdose deaths that is orders of magnitude higher than we’ve seen in previous years,” she said. However, “the increase that we [saw] in 2021 has slowed down.” These month-to-month increases are gradual, and Keyes notes that the latest incre...