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With opioid overdose deathssurging in the United States, many communities are in desperate need of solutions to bring down the body count. Among the most promising is strengthening prison reentry programs for highest-risk users, a Rutgers-led study has found. "For people who use drugs and have...
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 synthetic opioids such as fentanyl account for the majority of opioid overdose deaths in the United States. Opioid ep...
"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. Black people often have uneven acce...
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
Surprisingly, the record-setting spike came after Ohio experienced a significant drop in its opioid-related death rate, which had fallen to between 6 and 8 overdose deaths per 100,000 people over the prior 24-month period. “This is alarming data, and while COVID has rightly captured our at...
Related:Penticton hospital fourth busiest in the region for opioid overdose That compares to 75 in Kelowna and makes up part of the 150 deaths in the Okanagan, which saw a rate of 38.5 deaths per 100,000 people. Using B.C.’s 2017 population projections, consistent with the Coroners Servic...
Drug-related deaths, including overdoses, accounted for 58% of the 522 people who died within a year of being discharged from the hospital. The other deaths were attributed to causes other than drug-related, including diseases of the circulatory, respiratory and endocrine systems. ...
found that deaths from suicide, as well as from drugs and alcohol, were responsible for the trend since 1999. A follow-up story in theTimessaid younger white adults also had seen an increase in mortality rates, which was attributed primarily to increased abuse of prescription opioid painkillers...
RELATED: Pandemic aggravates opioid crisis as overdoses rise and services fall out of reach RELATED: With 1,716 deaths, 2020 deadliest year of overdose crisis in B.C. history Of the 32 overdose prevention and supervised consumption sites in the province, only one is located...