“Through 2017, the drug overdose epidemic continues to worsen and evolve, and the involvement of many types of drugs (e.g., opioids, cocaine, and methamphetamine) underscores the urgency to ...

Deaths from drug overdoses — including heroin and other opioids — climbed to record levels in 2016, according to new figures released by the federal government on Tuesday. Numbers from the ...

Hospitals are on the front lines of the opioid epidemic. Nearly 500,000 people with an opioid use disorder (OUD) are discharged from the hospital each year. Rates of opioid-related emergency ...

The opioid epidemic has led to a meteoric rise in injection drug use ... The CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics reported an estimated 100,306 drug overdose deaths in the U.S. in the ...

From 2007 to 2014, opioid dependence rose by 3,203 percent. Opioid abuse rose by 317 percent. Claims detailing pregnancy drug dependence diagnoses increased by 511 percent between the same time ...

The opioid epidemic is expensive. There are the cost of treatment programs. ... SIMMONS-DUFFIN: Well, you've heard the statistics about the epidemic as a whole, but they bear repeating.

THEY have America in a deadly grip. In 2015, the most recent year for which full statistics are available, 33,091 Americans died from opioid overdoses, according to the Centres for Disease Control ...

The number of opioid-related deaths are on track to be even higher this year: Overdose deaths increased by about 10% in the first three months of 2020, as compared with the same time period last year.

But the opioid epidemic isn't taking place in a vacuum, and is best understood as one of three interconnected national crises: substance abuse, mental illness, and mass incarceration.

5 surprising opioid use disorder statistics. Kayla Levy for Charlie Health. June 30, ... shows that nearly 75% of overdose deaths involve opioids, underscoring the opioid epidemic’s ongoing impact.

In the face of that struggle, it’s important to remember that there are still more causes for hope than for despair. For starters, we know what does and doesn’t work against addiction epidemics.

Experts have met at nine opioid summits around the state since July. Fentanyl deaths keep rising. Solutions hard to find as opioid epidemic keeps hitting St. Louis hard ...