One in 10 adults who died of a drug overdose in Ontario between April 2006 and March 2013 had been released from a provincial correctional facility within one year, researchers at St. Michael's Hospital and the University of Toronto have found.About St. Michael's Hospital...
Drug overdose deaths involving fentanyl more than tripled from 2016 to 2021 in the United States, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The new CDC data from the Vital Statistics Rapid Release Program showed tha
The abuse of opioids has increased in recent years, leading to an increased number of drug overdose deaths. The death rate from heroin overdose hit an all-time high of 4.9 per 100,000 population in 2016 and 2017, but has decreased in recent years. Now, illicitly manufactured syntheti...
From 1999 to 2017, the crude rate of drug overdose deaths among women aged 30-64 years in the United States increased by 260%. Drug Overdose Deaths Among Women Aged 30-64 Years--United States, 1999-2017 The crude rate was calculated by the number of cases of each geographical unit divide...
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"The proliferation of the potent opioid fentanyl, and a pandemic that has added hazards for people who use drugs, are driving new records in U.S. overdose deaths, and Black communities have been hit especially hard," The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. ...
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The NCHS found that the age-adjusted rate for drug overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids other than methadone doubled from 2015 to 2016, and that drug overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids other than methadone increased from 0.3 per 100,000 in 1999 to 6.2 per 100,000 in 2016. Drug...
Drug toxicity deaths in Nanaimo have been rising in recent year. In 2019, overdoses killed 28 people, and in 2022, overdoses claimed 85 lives. As of Oct. 31 this year, 99 people had died, representing a death rate more than double that of the rest of the Island Health reg...
Deaths from gunshot, self-inflicted or otherwise, were close behind car-related deaths, increasing 7 percent to more than 36,000. The increase in the U.S. death rate is "a big deal,"Philip Morgan, a demographer at the University of North Carolina, told NPR."There's not a better indica...