Medical News in Brief US Drug Overdose Deaths Declined in 2023 Samantha Anderer JAMA Full Text A recent Commonwealth Fund report confirmed that the US overdose death rate remains far higher than in any other country. In 2022, the US overdose rate was 324 deaths per 1 million people, 1.5...
US Drug Overdose Deaths Declined in 2023doi:10.1001/jama.2025.2570Anderer, SamanthaJAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association
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
About 107,500 people died of overdoses in the U.S. last year, including both American citizens and non-citizens who were in the country at the time they died, the CDC estimated. That’s down 3% from 2022, when there were an estimated 111,000 such deaths, the agency said. Though the...
About 107,500 people died of overdoses in the U.S. last year, including both American citizens and non-citizens who were in the country at the time they died, the CDC estimated. That’s down 3% from 2022, when there were an estimated 111,000 such deaths, the agency said. ...
From 2017, to 2018, US overdose death rates involving all opioids, prescription opioids, and heroin fell 2%, 13.5%, and 4.1%, respectively, while deaths involving synthetic opioids (other than methadone) jumped by 10%. In 2018, nearly half of all drug overdose deaths involved synthetic opioids...
NEW YORK — After years of decline, teen deaths from drug overdoses have inched up, a new U.S. government report shows. Article content The drop in teen deaths had been a rare bright spot in the opioid epidemic that has seen adult overdose deaths surge year after year — fueled by a...
Drug overdose deaths also continued to climb, surpassing 70,000 last year, in the midst of the deadliest drug overdose epidemic in U.S. history. The death rate rose 10 percent from the previous year, smaller than the 21 percent jump seen between 2015 and 2016. That's not quite cause ...
The number of drug overdose deaths in the United States is still increasing every month, according to new data, but the pace appears to be slowing.
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