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…
…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…
…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…
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…
…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…
…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…
…due to prescription opioid abuse but increases in deaths involving synthetic opioids including fentanyl. Death rates for all opioids were down 2 percent, but the death rate for synthetic opioids…
March 7, 2018 by Dennis Thompson HealthDay America’s opioid epidemic is escalating at breakneck speed, with tens of thousands of overdose victims spilling into the nation’s emergency rooms seeking lifesaving…
…addressing pain before it gets worse. Stem the Opioid Crisis with a full-scale approach – including promoting responsible opioid prescribing practices (such as provider education and best practices for Prescription…
…a rate 31 percent higher than over 2019 when 70,630 Americans died of drug overdoses (21.6 deaths per 100,000). Opioid overdose deaths: 68,630 Americans died from opioid overdoses in 2020,…
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