Category: Health and Society

She says the greatest increase in opioid deaths is in those related to … “From 2012-2018 the amount of fentanyl overdose deaths went up 858% in …

Australia has hit record opioid overdose death numbers, and reports from The Australian Bureau of Statistics, both in 2016 and 2017, identify that …

In 2019, Duluth saw the highest amount of opioid overdose deaths in five years. At least 15 people lost their lives, and the city’s police department saw …

(KRON) – The number of overdose deaths in San Francisco drastically increased in recent years, according to the Department of Public Health.

In that year, Ulster County had the second-highest per-capita rate of opioid … In the following five months, there were nine opioid-related deaths.

Overdose deaths spike in Sussex County, investigators issue overdose … Michael Hill is a 2018 National Fellow of the USC Annenberg Center for …

This is the first permanent prescription drug collection box in a federal building … in 2017, more than 72,000 Americans died of a drug overdose death.

Work to reduce opioid-related deaths is beginning across the state, as part of a $10 million investment to fight the opioid epidemic. Michigan ranks in …

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Drug overdose deaths continue to increase in the United States, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website.