Prescription painkillers once drove the nation’s overdose epidemic, but they were supplanted years ago by heroin and more recently by illegal fentanyl. The dangerously powerful opioid was developed to treat intense pain from ailments like cancer but has increasingly been mixed with other drugs in th...
TheNYC Department of Health, reported the highest number of drug overdoses on record last year, with 3,026 people dying, a 12% increase from the year before. Its key contributor, fentanyl, is reportedly the most common substance present in four out of five overdose deaths in the city. "R...
Prescription painkillers once drove the nation’s overdose epidemic, but they were supplanted years ago by heroin and more recently by illegal fentanyl. The dangerously powerful opioid was developed to treat intense pain from ailments like cancer but has increasingly been mixed with other drugs in th...
Prescription painkillers once drove the nation’s overdose epidemic, but they were supplanted years ago by heroin and more recently by illegal fentanyl. The dangerously powerful opioid was developed to treat intense pain from ailments like cancer but has increasingly been mixed with other drugs in th...
“Despite its geographic distance, China — not Mexico — has emerged as the primary force behind America’s fentanyl crisis,” report co-author Andrew Harding said. Overdose deaths in the United States topped 108,000 in 2023. And nearly three out of four, or 74,700, of those deaths were...
These incidents are the tip of iceberg. Tens of thousands of Americans are mourning the deaths of their family members amid an unprecedented fentanyl crisis, which claimed over 100,000 lives in 2022. According to the US government , fentanyl overdose has become the leading cause of death for ...
These incidents are the tip of iceberg. Tens of thousands of Americans are mourning the deaths of their family members amid an unprecedented fentanyl crisis, which claimed over 100,000 lives in 2022. According to the US government , fentanyl overdose has become the leading cause of death for ...
LA aims to charge dealers for fentanyl deaths Inside the new task force hoping to hold dealers responsible for fentanyl deaths 03:13 Nearly 108,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2022, according to final federal figures released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ...
Smoking was the most common route of use in drug overdose deaths in 2022, according to data from 28 US jurisdictions.Researchers from the Centers for
Overdoses surged during the Covid-19 pandemic, reaching a peak between the fall of 2022 and the summer of 2023, when the CDCestimatesthat there were nearly 115,000 overdose deaths in one year. Synthetic opioids, primarily fentanyl, were involved in about two-thirds of those deaths. But over...