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 ...
Addiction,criminal justice,Drugs,legislatureMarch 2, 2023 New Drug Possession Bill Emphasizes Coercive Treatment By Andrew Engelson Democrats in the legislature are making procedural moves that will decide what the state’s new drug possession law will look like—an exercise that became necessary after...
Nearly 108,000 Americans died ofdrug overdosesin 2022, according to final federal figures released Thursday by theCenters for Disease Control and Prevention. Over the last two decades, the number of U.S. overdose deaths has risen almost every year and continued to break annual records — making...
Thestudyfound that of the 63,424 people who died fromdrug overdosesacross 43 states and Washington, D.C. in 2022, 22% had a separate mental health disorder. Analyzing data from the CDC's State Unintentional Drug Overdose Reporting System, the researchers found that the most common disorders ...
1 These high rates of overdose, continuing risks posed by fentanyl, and widening socioeconomic and racial disparities in overdose mortality are concerning. State and territorial health officials (S/THOs) have responded by bolstering comprehensive efforts that span prevention, data monitoring, harm ...
Overdose mortality rates for opioids and stimulant drugs are substantially higher in men than in women: state-level analysis. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2023;48(11):1639–47. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-023-01601-8. Dahlman D, Ohlsson H, Edwards AC, Sundquist J, Hakansson A, Sundquist K...
Daquan Booker, 34, is accused of selling 17-year-old Grace Wrightington pills laced with fentanyl in 2023. He has been charged with criminal sale and possession of a controlled substance, but the Nassau County district attorney says under current New York state laws, he cannot be charged wit...
In Nassau, Narcan kits have been placed in county buildings and parks since 2023. Suffolk put Narcan kits in its county buildings beginning in 2020. In New York State, opioid deaths have been driven by synthetic opioids, primarily fentanyl, according to the state’s 2023 Opioid Annual Report...
….the deep blue state of CA, America’s homeless capital, where Taxpayers money is wasted in a Free-For-All grab by Grifting Homeless Advocates to mis-manage an out of control Vagrancy problem. “Every major city in California is spending tens of millions or more on programs for the ...
She died in July 2023 at her Los Angeles apartment. Eight months later, a homicide detective showed a photograph of Solomon’s body to Casey Linder, who said they had been “good friends for a long time.” “Poor girl was just sitting at her table, crisscross applesauce, slumped ...