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Opioid Addiction 2016 Facts & Figures [PDF]
, 2016 National Opioid Overdose Epidemic* Drug overdose is the leading cause of accidental death in the US, with 55,403 lethal drug overdoses in 2015. Opioid addiction is driving this epidemic, with 20,101 overdose deaths related to prescription pain relievers,
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Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Care and Sciences, 2022 Background Tracheal intubation may be performed in patients with drug overdose due to self-harm; however, the details of the causative drug are unknown.
Kazuki Nagashima +2 more
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Drug and Opioid-Involved Overdose Deaths — United States, 2017–2018
MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2020 Of the 70,237 drug overdose deaths in the United States in 2017, approximately two thirds (47,600) involved an opioid (1). In recent years, increases in opioid-involved overdose deaths have been driven primarily by deaths involving synthetic opioids ...
N. Wilson +4 more
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JAMA pediatrics, 2022 This cross-sectional study assesses the mortality among adolescents and young people in the US from 2015 to 2019 in years of life lost from unintentional drug overdose.
O. Hall +5 more
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Slaying the Dragon: How the Law Can Help Rehab a Country in Crisis [PDF]
, 2015 Motor-vehicle-related deaths consistently topped the accidental death count in the United States for decades. In 2009, for the first time, drug poisoning took over as the number one accidental killer.
Kopf, Samantha
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Drug Overdose Deaths in Adults Aged 65 and Over: United States, 2000-2020.
NCHS data brief, 2022 In 2020, 5,209 drug overdose deaths in adults aged 65 and over were recorded (1). Drug overdose death rates for older adults were lower than for other age groups but have increased in the past 2 decades (1,2).
E. Kramarow, B. Tejada-Vera
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Drug Overdose Rates Are Highest in Places With the Most Economic and Family Distress [PDF]
, 2018 In this brief, author Shannon Monnat examines county-level mortality data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, pooled for 2006–2015, to gain insight into the U.S. drug overdose problem.
Monnat, Shannon M.
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Opioid Analgesic Prescribing Practices of Dental Professionals in the United States [PDF]
, 2017 The prescription of opioid analgesics by dental professionals is widespread in the United States. Policy makers, government agencies, and professional organizations consider this phenomenon a growing public health concern.
Okunseri, Christopher +4 more
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Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports, 2023 Background: We examined non-fatal drug overdoses during the COVID-19 pandemic among persons who inject drugs (PWID) in New York City (NYC). Methods: We recruited 275 PWID through respondent driven sampling and staff outreach from Oct. 2021-Sept. 2022 and
Don Des Jarlais +3 more
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The Opioid Crisis in Rural and Small Town America [PDF]
, 2018 In this brief, authors Shannon Monnat and Khary Rigg examine rural versus urban differences in opioid mortality and identify challenges for dealing with the opioid crisis in rural areas.
Monnat, Shannon M, Rigg, Khary K
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