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Collaborative Applauds HHS Move to Expand Efforts to Confront Opioid Abuse Epidemic
WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 27, 2015) – The Collaborative for Effective Prescription Opioid Policies (CEPOP) provided a ringing endorsement today for new actions to confront the opioid abuse epidemic announced March…
Millennial Generation Deaths Due to Drug Misuse up 400 percent since 1999; Deaths from Drugs and Suicide at All-time Highs
…opioid overdose death rates among Millennials increased by more than 500 percent. During the same period, synthetic opioid death rates increased by a staggering 6,000 percent. The age group’s overall…
Annual Deaths Due to Alcohol, Drugs or Suicide Exceeded 150,000According to the Most Recent Data – And Could Get Worse Due to COVID-19
…continuing shift within the opioid crisis with reductions in deaths due to prescription opioid overdose but increases in deaths involving synthetic opioids, including fentanyl. Death rates for all opioids were…
New National Data Present a Mixed Picture: Some Drug Overdoses Down but Others are Up, and Suicides Rates are Increasing
…drug overdose deaths, including opioid overdoses, since 2012. The year also saw an increase in suicide and in overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids, cocaine, and psychostimulants (a category that includes…
New Data Shows Drug Overdoses Increased in 40 States and Washington, D.C.
…deaths. Around two-thirds of these deaths were opioid-related. The increase was largely driven by the continued escalation of deaths from fentanyl and other synthetic opioids –topping 19,410 in 2016, up…
More Millennials Are Dying ‘Deaths of Despair,’ as Overdose and Suicide Rate Climb
Time by Jamie Ducharme June 13, 2019 There’s been a marked uptick in so-called deaths of despair—those involving drugs, alcohol or suicide—among millennials over the last decade, according to a…
New Data Show Drug Overdose and Suicide Deaths Climbed at Alarming Rates in 2017
…death rate from synthetic opioids including fentanyl. Heroin, natural and semisynthetic opioids, and methadone overdose death rates were flat or declined nationally. “Just one person dying from a preventable cause…
Public Health Funding
The COVID-19 pandemic is a stark illustration of what can happen when the public health system is not adequately funded but infectious disease is just one of the public health…