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 ...
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 ...
The parents of a Rocklin teen who died two years ago are planning to attend the State of the Union Address. Chris and Laura Didier lost their 17-year-old son, Zach, to a Fentanyl overdose in 2020 ...
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 ...
>>> 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 ...
A 28-year-old Seattle man first got hooked on Xanax in college. Years later, he moved on to fentanyl. Then a string of arrests for impaired driving landed him in legal trouble, and his fourth DUI ...
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 ...
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 ...
A new report says the number of accidental drug and alcohol deaths almost doubled in Ontario during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Ontario Drug Policy Research Network and Public Health Ontario say ...
