Newly released state data showed 151 teens ages 15 to 19 died from a fentanyl overdose in 2022, down from 230 the year before and 250 in 2020 — a 40% decline in two years, according to ...
It is possible for someone to take a pill without knowing it contains fentanyl. It is also possible to take a pill knowing it contains fentanyl, but with no way of knowing if it contains a lethal ...
Overdose deaths caused by fentanyl are on the rise across the country. It’s especially grim for young people, with more than 75 percent of adolescent overdose deaths in 2021 involving the ...
Sept. 1, 2023 -- Overdose deaths from counterfeit prescription pills more than doubled in recent years, the CDC reported. From July to September 2019 to October to December 2021, the number of ...
The US is now experiencing its greatest overall rates of death in more than a century — and it’s being fueled by a sharp rise in drug overdoses. Experts from Florida Atlantic University ...
Experts say the U.S. is currently in a "fourth wave" of opioid overdose deaths, this one marked by a sharp increase in fentanyl — a synthetic opioid — being mixed with stimulant drugs.
U.S. drug overdose deaths increased 30% from 2019 to 2020 and 15% in 2021, resulting in an estimated 108,000 deaths in 2021.* Among persons aged 14–18 years, overdose deaths increased 94% from ...
A 1-year-old boy has died and three other children were hospitalized after apparently coming into contact with an opioid at a day care center, according to the NYPD. Illegal drugs are expected to ...
Seven hundred and fifty four people died by drug overdose in the Nashville area last year, a number that makes Davidson County the second-deadliest major metro in the country. Fentanyl was linked ...
>>> PULLING BACK THE CURTAIN OF POWER. >>> CHICAGO'S OPIOID EPIDEMIC HAS RISEN TO A DEADLY NEW PEAK. THE COOK COUNTY MEDICAL EXAMINER'S OFFICE JUST REPORTED A RECORD 2000 COOK COUNTY RESIDENTS ...
Gabapentin can be used to potentiate illicit opioids; data indicate gabapentin exposures associated with intentional abuse, misuse, or unknown exposures reported to U.S. poison centers increased ...
