…Rates Are Still at Historic Highs: Deaths from synthetic opioids continue to rise sharply and suicides are growing at the fastest pace in years. More than 150,000 Americans died from…
…well-being are becoming more frequent and more severe. These include wildfires and flooding, the opioid crisis, the increase in obesity and chronic illness, and this year a measles outbreak, serious…
August 21, 2017 by JEFF SCHLEGELMILCH AND DARA ALPERT LIEBERMAN The Hill From Ebola to Zika to the opioid epidemic, health departments and the healthcare system, now more than ever,…
…of the upturn in deaths due to drug overdose involved opioid overdose, with additional deaths due to cocaine and psychostimulants. In addition, a new and growing threat is xylazine, a…
…and suicide in 2017—more than twice as many as in 1999 – including sharp increases in synthetic opioid deaths. Policy action on these deaths of despair epidemics is imperative. Read…
…the Trust for America’s Health and the Well Being Trust. The authors of the study say the projections could be conservative as the opioid epidemic continues to wreak havoc on…
December 21, 2017 by Maggie Fox NBC News “The escalating growth of opioid deaths is downright frightening – and it’s getting worse,” said John Auerbach, president and CEO of Trust…
…Virgin Islands. And theirs is the lead agency working with hospitals and doctors nationwide to guarantee that opioids are appropriately prescribed and that opioid-related deaths are accurately recorded, he said….
Substance Misuse Prevention In 2012, when the full scope of the opioid epidemic begun to become apparent, Colorado officials looked to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE)…
…data systems and a robust public health workforce. “Even before COVID-19, numerous health emergencies, including infectious disease outbreaks like measles, Zika and Ebola, the opioid epidemic, weather-related events and lung…
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