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...
Spatiotemporal Trends in Three Smoothed Overdose Death Rates in US Counties, 2012-2020doi:10.5888/pcd20.220316Saunders, McKinley E.Humphrey, Jamie L.Lambdin, Barrot H.Preventing Chronic Disease
The researchers highlighted two theories to explain how opioid use has contributed to large increases in the rates of death by overdose and suicide over the last 20 years. The first theory states there is an increasing “demand” for opioids, meaning ...
4 These preliminary data strongly suggest that the social and economic fallout from the pandemic may have exacerbated already increasing overdose rates in the US. However, existing surveillance systems that could be used to confirm this have considerable limitations.5 For example, the released figures...
the research team designed and trained a retrospective statistical model to find patterns in the relationship between county characteristics and overdose deaths, then used the data to predict fatality rates in the next year. The predictions were then compared with actual overdose death rates in each ...
Evaluation of increases in drug overdose mortality rates in the US by race and ethnicity before and during the Covid-19 pandemic. JAMA Psychiatry. 2022;79(4):379-381. doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2022.0004 ArticlePubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 2. Humphreys K, Shover CL, Andrews...
Deaths from opioid overdoses are especially prevalent in 4 US statesMichal Kranz
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Overall, they found that fatal overdoses quadrupled from 1060 in 2002 (three per 100,000) to 6702 (12 per 100,000) in 2021, with the highest rates in Blacks (30.9 per 100,000). "I expected that overdoses would have gone up among older adults, just as we've seen pretty much across...
" John Auerbach, president and CEO of Trust for America's Health, said in a statement. "We know what works to address deaths of despair, but progress has been uneven and death rates continue to climb, with communities of color experiencing higher rates of increases in drug-induced and ...