This study uses data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research database to assess 20-year trends in drug overdose fatalities among older adults in the US.Humphreys, KeithShover, Chelsea L....
The first wave resulted in a widespread "painkiller culture" and a sharp increase in the number of deaths caused by opioids. The second wave started around 2010 with a surge in heroin use. From 2002 to 2013, heroin-related overdose deaths surged by 286 percent. Fast forward to today, and ...
Gaskin, PhD JAMA JAMA Insights The Pandemic Stay-at-Home Order and Opioid-Involved Overdose Fatalities Maryann Mason, PhD; Ponni Arukumar, MD; Joe Feinglass, PhD JAMA Research Letter Excess Deaths in New York City During the COVID-19 and 1918 Influenza Pandemics Jeremy Samuel Faust, MD, MS...
The first wave resulted in a widespread "painkiller culture" and a sharp increase in the number of deaths caused by opioids. The second wave started around 2010 with a surge in heroin use. From 2002 to 2013, heroin-related overdose deaths surged by 286 percent. Fast forward to today, and ...
Nationally, fatalities in crashes where drugs were involved soared from 2,003 in 1993 to 7,438 in 2015, according to the most recent data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The data reflect only the presence of drugs in a driver, not whether the drugs caused the crash...
yet progress in anti-drug efforts that have been ongoing since the 1970s has remained stagnant due to partisan deadlock. This impasse has become more critical with the escalating number of fentanyl-related overdose fatalities plaguing the United States and has already impeded the creation of impact...
Motor Vehicle Accidents represent the largest cause of wrongful deaths in the United States. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), there were 36,835 fatalities caused by traffic deaths in 2019. Motor vehicle accidents are wide-ranging and include accidents involving...
Overdose prevention is critically important, not only because of potential fatalities, but because a nonfatal overdose is associated with complications of unknown frequency, including aspiration and brain, nerve, and trauma-related injuries. Naloxone, a short-acting mu opioid receptor antagonist, effectiv...
However, combining central nervous system (CNS) depressants may increase the risks of intoxication and fatal overdose. The situation is concerning in the US, where the opioid crisis already reshaped the landscape of drug-related fatalities at the dawn of the millennium [6]. Xylazine-involved ...
Graeme Biggar, director-general of the agency, said "there has never been a more dangerous time to take drugs" after 4,300 people died due to drug misuse in the UK in 2023. He said the number of drug fatalities every year has increased by...