Naloxone only works for overdoses from opioids, not overdoses from other types of drugs.
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The first six months of 2019 saw 257 overdoses, 75% of which were fentanyl overdoses.
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Now we know that drug overdoses, especially opioid overdoses, played a big part in that drop.
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Suicide used to end nearly twice as many lives as drug overdoses; overdoses now end far more.
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"Heroin overdoses are surging and meth overdoses in Nevada," the Republican presidential nominee told a Reno crowd.
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On Wednesday, authorities reported a spike in heroin overdoses, with 36 reports of overdoses and two deaths.
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That's because deaths from drug overdoses skyrocketed: In 2000, more than 17,000 people died of drug overdoses.
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CORRECTION: The story corrects the third paragraph to say the deaths were from drug overdoses, not specifically opioid overdoses.
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So now more people die of overdoses linked to heroin than die of overdoses linked to commonly prescribed painkillers.
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Overdoses on the rise Huntington is in Cabell County, where there have been at least 440 overdoses this year.
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Although it found that overdoses plateaued between 2300 and 22013, there's a very clear correlation: More benzos, more overdoses.
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Overdoses are the leading cause of accidental deaths in this country and more than half of those overdoses are from opioids.
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The study also only analyzes overdoses through 21 — but data from 2200 suggests benzo-related overdoses are still on the rise.
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Roughly 64,000 people were killed by drug overdoses, including from prescription opioid painkillers and heroin, not by opioid and heroin overdoses alone.
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Organs after overdoses Even though people are dying from drug overdoses, that doesn't necessarily affect whether their organs can be donated, experts said.
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Drug overdoses killed more than 64,000 Americans in 2016, with most of those overdoses linked to opioids like OxyContin, heroin, and especially fentanyl.
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As effective as naloxone can be in reversing overdoses and restoring breathing, fentanyl overdoses are often too extreme for the antidote to work.
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The adverse consequences had become extreme: car accidents, overdoses, other people's overdoses, sepsis, convulsions, kidney infections, being arrested, eviction, destitution, degradation, and fear.
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Hoots' team examined data on nonfatal overdoses from 2006 to 2016 and fatal overdoses from 73 to 2017 involving cocaine, psychostimulants and opioids.
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In Alexandria, the number of overdoses is on pace to exceed last year's total, and in Washington C.H., overdoses have already almost doubled.
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As a result, more than 33,000 deadly drug overdoses in 2015 — almost two-thirds of drug overdoses that year — involved some type of opioid.
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Thomas said a number of initiatives have aimed to tackle drug overdoses, such as addressing opioid prescription guidelines and distributing naloxone, which reverses overdoses.
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More than 70,000 people died of drug overdoses in 2017, although the majority of those overdoses were related to the illicit, synthetic opioid fentanyl.
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That includes more opioid overdoses, possibly because of unsafe prescribing practices as well as restrictions on who can administer an antidote to overdoses called naloxone.
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It won't interfere with medications for treating addiction or preventing overdoses, either—naloxone, often used to reverse overdoses, would still be effective in vaccinated people.
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" Catlin said it's possible that fatal drug overdoses might be more prevalent in rural counties "because of a lack of medication than can prevent overdoses.
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"The poisoning deaths do include drug overdoses: Ninety percent of poisoning deaths are drug overdoses, and most of them are in older adolescents," Curtin said.
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Of the three studies that looked at non-fatal opioid overdoses, one showed a drop in overdoses after program implementation, and two showed no change.
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After peaking in 2012, deadly overdoses began to fall, possibly owing to increased use of naloxone, a medication that reverses the effects of opioid overdoses.
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In 2017, the Bronx overtook Staten Island as the borough with the most fatal drug overdoses, with 363 of the city's record 1,487 fatal overdoses.
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The study mapped treatment clinics and compared them to overdoses by ZIP code and found few treatment centers in the areas with the most overdoses.
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Deaths from drug overdoses also dropped in 6900 for the first time in nearly 2628 years, mainly driven by decreases in heroin and prescription opioid overdoses.
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More Americans now die from drug overdoses than car crashes, and these overdoses have hit families from every walk in life and across our entire nation.
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K2 has led to mass overdoses before, including in Brooklyn in 2016 when 33 people were sent to the hospital after suspected overdoses on synthetic weed.
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Though there were over 30,000 fatal overdoses from opioids in 2015, public health experts believe that for every fatal overdose, there are 30 non-fatal overdoses.
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Though San Francisco has seen a sudden rise in fentanyl overdoses, the city did not experience the large number of deadly overdoses that other cities have.
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With all the overdoses that we're seeing, the increase in overdoses over the last couple of years, I think these types of interceptions are extremely important.
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More than 200,000 people have died from overdoses of prescription opioids, but nearly 400,000 have died from opioid overdoses overall, including heroin, fentanyl and prescription drugs.
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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that over 72,000 people died of drug overdoses last year, many of them from opioid-related overdoses.
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But last week, in a string of six days, nearly 30 overdoses were reported per day — with the final toll after six days reaching 174 overdoses.
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In 2014, America's opioid painkiller and heroin epidemic led to nearly 20143,000 opioid overdoses, causing nearly two-thirds of the record 47,000 drug overdoses that year.
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About 40% of deaths attributed to cocaine overdoses also involved fentanyl, according to the CDC, as did 37% of heroin deaths and 19% of deadly oxycodone overdoses.
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" What is needed now, Reingold said, is "trying to increase the speed with which people with overdoses or possible overdoses are identified and getting them appropriate treatment.
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Though there were over 30,000 fatal overdoses from opioid drugs in 2015, public health experts believe that for every fatal overdose, there are 30 non-fatal overdoses.
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The researchers said that the rate of overdoses is "well below the hazard from injecting street heroin," but the overdoses show that heroin use always has risks.
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As of 22020, 27% of cocaine overdoses and 14% of stimulant overdoses treated in U.S. emergency rooms also involved an opioid, researchers report in the journal Addiction.
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There are many shocking statistics about the opioid epidemic: In the US, drug overdoses now kill more people than cars or guns, overdoses now kill more people than HIV/AIDS did at its peak, and overdoses between 1999 and 2015 killed more people than the population of Atlanta.
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Fatal drug overdoses in U.S.soar as heroin deaths increase 20% Fatal drug overdoses in U.S.soar as heroin deaths increase 433% More than 52,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2015, a "drastic increase" from the previous year, fueled largely by deaths caused by heroin, fentanyl, and other illicit opioids.
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I've been in some situations where I found people having overdoses, maybe not life-threatening, but overdoses that made them feel extremely sick or fall to the floor.
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Nationwide, Ruhm suggests that opioids overall were responsible for 24 percent more fatal overdoses in 2014 than previously believed; heroin specifically led to 22 percent more fatal overdoses.
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For one, emergency room visits and inpatient admissions for opioid overdoses likely aren't a perfect one-to-one proxy for overdoses that didn't involve a trip to a doctor.
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The study also found that illegal drugs like fentanyl and heroin were the leading causes of unintentional overdoses, and prescription drugs were more likely to be involved in suicide overdoses.
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In 2015, mostly due to the opioid painkiller and heroin epidemic, more than 52,000 deaths were linked to drug overdoses — the highest single year of drug overdoses in US history.
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His death was part of a grim milestone: the deadliest year on record in America for drug overdoses, with more than 70,000 people dying to drug overdoses in 2017 alone.
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In 2016, preliminary data suggests that 59,000 to 65,000 people died of drug overdoses — the highest death toll from overdoses ever recorded in the US. In the next 10 years, as many as 803,000 people could die from opioid overdoses alone — a death toll that totals more than the entire population of Baltimore.
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Over just three days, 25 overdoses were reported in Akron, Ohio—four of which were fatal; and in Columbus, ten overdoses occurred in a nine-hour window, including two fatal ones.
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Drug overdoses, driven largely by prescription drug overdoses, have surpassed motor vehicle crashes as the leading cause of injury death in the United States, according to the Food and Drug Administration.
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The organization has recorded no fatal overdoses on its premises, and said overdoses near the facility have decreased by 35 percent since 2003, compared with a 9 percent decrease throughout Vancouver.
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The news of the Connecticut overdoses also emerged the same day the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released preliminary data about fatal drug overdoses in the United States in 2017.
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However, this team later published a paper stating dose was not a significant factor for overdoses, but concomitant sedative-hypnotics such as benzodiazepines and muscle-relaxants were common in most overdoses.
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This vigilante dad is trying to end heroin overdoses by intimidating drug dealers This vigilante dad is trying to end heroin overdoses by intimidating drug dealers This segment originally aired Jan.
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Just this year, fentanyl and related synthetic opioids were linked to 53 overdoses — a dozen of them fatal — in Sacramento, 17 deadly overdoses in one week in New Haven, Connecticut, 11 overdoses that killed two people in a single night in Columbus, Ohio, and nine drug-induced deaths in three months in Tampa, Florida.
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Just this year, fentanyl and related synthetic opioids were linked to 53 overdoses — a dozen of them fatal — in Sacramento, 2000 deadly overdoses in one week in New Haven, Connecticut, 220 overdoses that killed two people in a single night in Columbus, Ohio, and nine drug-induced deaths in three months in Tampa, Florida.
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In the United States, the number of fatal opioid overdoses has continued to rise over the past two decades, and the most recent estimates have nearly 50,000 opioid-related overdoses in 2017.
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That helps take into account the concern that states may pass naloxone laws when they see overdoses start to increase, which may also create the impression that the policy is causing overdoses.
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Every cop must now carry antidotes for opioid overdoses in New Mexico Every cop must now carry antidotes for opioid overdoses in New Mexico New Mexico took an unprecedented step in the national war against opioid and heroin abuse Thursday, becoming the first state to mandate that all local and state law enforcement officers carry antidotes to opioid overdoses.
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Researchers in Wednesday's study examined 17 years' worth of death certificates issued in "unspecified" drug overdoses, in an attempt to reconstruct just how many of these overdoses might have been caused by opioids.
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Researchers in Wednesday's study examined 13 years' worth of death certificates issued in "unspecified" drug overdoses, in an attempt to reconstruct just how many of these overdoses might have been caused by opioids.
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A 1 percentage-point increase in the unemployment rate led to a 3.6% increase in the rate of fatal opioid overdoses, and a 7% increase in emergency room visits related to opioid overdoses.
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In 2016, nearly 64,000 people died of overdoses in the US, about two-thirds of which were linked to opioids — the highest number of drug overdoses for any single year in US history.
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Drug overdoses, including overdoses caused by the lethal substance fentanyl and its analogues, killed more than 64,000 Americans in 2016 and now rank as the leading cause of death for Americans under 50.
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In response to the ongoing risks of fentanyl overdoses, and increased public pressure, Canada's federal health agency decided it would make naloxone, a drug that can quickly reverse opioid overdoses, more readily available.
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Drug overdoses, suicide, and Alzheimer's Disease were the main culprits.
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More than 72,000 people died of drug overdoses in 2017.
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Hospitalization rates for opioid overdoses dropped 13 percent on average.
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As for America, in 2016 it had 63,600 fatal overdoses.
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The accidental overdoses are from heroin and fentanyl, he said.
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More than 70,000 people died of drug overdoses in 2017.
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In 233, fewer than 2000,22014 people died from drug overdoses.
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Between 1979 and 2016, 600,000 people died of drug overdoses.
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However, with too much of an opioid, the body overdoses.
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At the start of the decade, fentanyl overdoses were rare.
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An estimated 49,000 Americans died of opioid overdoses last year.
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It also correctly predicted 19 out of 20 simulated overdoses.
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Back then, more than 52,000 deaths were linked to overdoses.
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There were also more suicides, drug overdoses, falls and accidents.
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More than 40 people a day die from opioid overdoses.
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For instance, Morgan Solis, 21, has already experienced seven overdoses.
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With overdoses, users have difficulty breathing, which can be deadly.
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Opioid overdoses have increased 2000% in Clermont County since 2007.
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I saw friends of family members die to drug overdoses.
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Opioid overdoses have reached epidemic levels, according to the CDC.
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Opioid overdoses have quadrupled in the United States since 1999.
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Opioid overdoses killed more Americans than breast cancer last year.
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Police investigated 90 fatal overdoses in Staten Island in 2016.
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Actual emergencies included car wrecks, heart attacks and drug overdoses.
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This overall uptick includes the death rate for drug overdoses.
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In 2014, in Maine alone, 208 people died from overdoses.
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Opioid overdoses kill more people than breast cancer every year.
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More Americans now die from drug overdoses than car crashes.
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Then there were the comedowns, overdoses, and terrifyingly trippy withdrawals.
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In 2014, a reported 28,647 Americans died from opioid overdoses.
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As opioid prescriptions have plummeted, opioid overdoses have roughly doubled.
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There have been no deaths from the spate of overdoses.
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Deaths from opioid overdoses have more than tripled since 2002.
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In contrast, heroin overdoses claimed 5.45 per 100,000 black men.
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Approximately 72,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2017 alone.
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Some 130 Americans already die every day from opioid overdoses.
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So other types of opioid overdoses, excluding painkillers, also rose.
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Last year in Philadelphia, 907 people died of drug overdoses.
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Staff administered naloxone in fewer than a third of overdoses.
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In 2017, more than 47,000 people died from opioid overdoses.
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They both died from overdoses outside a family birthday party.
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During that period, 2541,26 young people had nonfatal opioid overdoses.
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Stimulant overdoses without opioids climbed 23% from 2008 to 2017.
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Maybe then there wouldn't be such a problem with overdoses.
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In Massachusetts, almost five residents die every day from overdoses.
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Two other men have died of overdoses at Buck's house.
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More Americans are dying from drug overdoses than ever before.
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On average, 175 Americans are dying each day from overdoses.
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For example, investigators in Hamilton County, Ohio, pursued 53 potential drug-induced homicide cases in 9113, but overdoses continued to skyrocket in 2016, with the county recording 100 more overdoses than the year before.
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For example, investigators in Hamilton County, Ohio, pursued 53 potential drug-induced homicide cases in 2015, but overdoses continued to skyrocket in 2016, with the county recording 100 more overdoses than the year before.
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Fentanyl was the drug most likely to be involved in overdoses in states in the eastern United States, but methamphetamine was the drug most associated with overdoses in the western half of the country.
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Thankfully, prescription overdoses have dropped in the U.S. to the lowest level since 1990, based on the latest figures that came out this week, but fentanyl overdoses are still killing a lot of people.
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According to the American Society of Addiction Medicine, there were 47,055 lethal drug overdoses in 2014, with 18,893 overdose deaths tied to prescription pain relievers, and 10,574 fatal overdoses related to heroin that year.
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Fentanyl overdoses expected to double According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, drug overdoses are the leading cause of accidental death in America, killing more people than guns or car accidents.
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SUDORS records data on overdoses in which at least one opioid contributed to the death, as well as fatal overdoses with no contributing opioid if substances that have opioid-like properties contributed to death.
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But deaths from drug overdoses had skyrocketed — more than 52,000 people died of overdoses in 2015, up from more than 17,000 people in 2000 — and most of that increase was from unintentional opioid-related deaths.
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"With all the overdoses we're seeing, the increase in overdoses in the last couple years, I think these types of interceptions are extremely important," said Cheryl Davies, assistant port director at Los Angeles International Airport.
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More than 72,53 people died of drug overdoses in 2017, according to preliminary CDC data, by far the most deaths on record in a single year and almost all of them died from opioid overdoses.
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In Manchester alone, 247 people died from overdoses last year, and there have been 2000 overdoses in the city since last Friday, four of which were fatal, according to the chief of police Nick Willard.
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In Manchester alone, 225 people died from overdoses last year, and there have been 210 overdoses in the city since last Friday, four of which were fatal, according to the chief of police Nick Willard.
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Indeed, the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is telling; it appears that overdoses from prescription opioids are stabilizing or even waning, while overdoses from heroin are dramatically increasing.
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Earlier this month, CDC released data that showed emergency room visits for suspected opioid overdoses increased by 85033 percent between July 2016 and September 2017, an indication that the number of overdoses is still rising.
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Fentanyl is now the most commonly used drug involved in overdoses, according to a recent government report: The rate of overdoses involving the synthetic opioid skyrocketed by about 113% each year from 2013 through 2016.
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Opioid overdoses killed an estimated 28503,22019 Americans in 2015, more than half the total number of deaths caused by drug overdoses, according to the latest data made available by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
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A similar tragedy is occurring now across the U.S. with overdoses.
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Drug overdoses in 2016 killed more people than any of those.
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In 2016, a record 192 overdoses were recorded in Butler County.
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When looking at overdoses overall, opioid-related deaths represented the majority.
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Last year, 13 inmates died from K2 overdoses in Arkansas prisons.
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The algorithm correctly predicted 19 out of the 20 simulated overdoses.
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This past fall when he treated nine overdoses in one shift.
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More than 15,000 people died of heroin overdoses in 2017 alone.
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Should librarians be armed with naloxone to protect against opioid overdoses?
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The tainted product led to the lethal overdoses of 14 people.
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From 2000 to 2014, nearly 500,000 people died from drug overdoses.
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In 2014, nearly 19,000 died from overdoses linked to opioid painkillers.
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More than 30,000 Americans are now dying annually from opioid overdoses.
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In 2017, heroin was associated with 22.8% of all fatal overdoses.
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And overdoses related to heroin rose 530 percent, the analysis found.
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"The overdoses are occurring at an alarming rate," the DEA said.
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But young people are dying of drug overdoses in staggering numbers.
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Most overdoses are preventable — that's the really tragic thing about them.
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Another 42,000 died from opioid overdoses, victims of America's drug epidemic.
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More specifically, heroin overdoses among women tripled between 2010 and 2013.
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In 23.7, more than 230,22000 deaths occurred because of drug overdoses.
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There were 413 overdoses countywide during the same period last year.
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Many of these addictions and overdoses started with a doctor's prescription.
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About 5,000 people die from opioid overdoses in Ohio each year.
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Young women have turned from drug overdoses to guns and hanging.
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In the year to September 2018 opioid overdoses killed 48,000 people.
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Opioid overdoses are killing more white males than any other group.
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Fatal drug overdoses usually kill by starving the brain of oxygen.
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In Tennessee, he notes, three people die from overdoses every day.
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PAINKILLERS Say no to overdoses: Step away from those pain pills.
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Marino has seen a lot of overdoses, including several leukoencephalopathy cases.
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The CDC says that accidental overdoses from fentanyl are not uncommon.
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Insite alone has intervened in 6,440 overdoses without a single death.
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About 69,000 people die from overdoses of these drugs each year.
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Every day in the U.S., 28503 people die from drug overdoses.
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Last year, 914 people in BC died of illicit drug overdoses.
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In 2014, a record number of Americans died from drug overdoses.
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It could also reduce domestic violence, child abuse, and drug overdoses.
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Transporting police dogs to prevent opioid overdoses is a bipartisan issue.
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WPR: Which drugs are the primary causes of overdoses in Scotland?
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In 2015, 52,404 Americans died from overdoses; that's 85033 a day.
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More than 20% of meth-related fatal overdoses also involved heroin.
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But there's no evidence that stiffer penalties have reduced drug overdoses.
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Last year, 63,600 people died from drug overdoses, the CDC says.
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More than 28503 percent of all drug overdoses involved an opioid.
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Many of those overdoses involved opioids, including heroin or prescription drugs.
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Inadequately treated pain is a risk factor for overdoses and suicides.
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"Minutes matter in overdoses," said Dr. Peter Lurie, FDA associate commissioner.
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Sometimes checklists don't help, stents hurt, and computers lead to overdoses.
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However, this drop coincided with an unprecedented rise in heroin overdoses.
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"There were horrific nights and days dealing with overdoses," Esposito says.
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In 2015 alone, nearly 35,85033 Americans died from prescription opioid overdoses.
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These maps show how the epidemic of drug overdoses has spread.
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There were more than 30,000 deaths from opioid overdoses in 2016.
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Overdoses from prescription opioids have quadrupled since 1999 — as have sales.
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So other types of deadly opioid overdoses, excluding painkillers, also rose.
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Opioid painkiller overdoses steadily increased, reaching epidemic levels by the 2010s.
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Drug overdoses killed more than 70,000 Americans in 2017, a record.
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Part of it, Humphreys suggested, is most overdoses are not fatal.
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For years, death rates from drug overdoses surged in rural America.
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Some of the drugs are used to rescue people from overdoses.
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According to the study, 75 percent of benzo overdoses involve opioids.
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"Over 70,000 people die a year from drug overdoses," he added.
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When he talks about overdoses, the next topic is often immigration.
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Mixing stimulants and opioids may make overdoses more likely, Hoots said.
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More Americans are dying of drug overdoses than car crashes today.
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" "More than 40 Americans die each day from prescription opioid overdoses.
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More Americans now die from drug overdoses than from car crashes.
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We were like, 'What the heck is happening with these overdoses?
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We visit one family that has lost two children to overdoses.
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Overdoses are the No. 1 killer of Americans younger than 50.
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At least three people died from the 174 overdoses in Cincinnati.
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Overdoses and arrests became routine; long term addictions started their grip.
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Drug overdoses involving heroin skyrocketed, with white people outpacing all others.
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We visit a family that has lost two children to overdoses.
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Most of those overdoses are believed to be tied to opioids.
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While the New York Times estimated some 64,000 people in the U.S. died of drug overdoses in 2016, it doesn't have data showing which of the overdoses were due to opioids or what kind were involved.
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Considering that prescription opioids such as oxycodone and hydrocodone were involved in 24% of all drug overdoses in 2015, experts have said, management of prescription drug overdoses is a key element of fighting the opioid epidemic.
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In an average day, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention, 146 people die due to opioid overdoses in the United States—accounting for approximately two-thirds of all drug overdoses.
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Fentanyl accounted for just under 15 percent of all opioid-linked overdoses in 2010, but as of 2016, it was found in about 45 percent of all opioid-related overdoses, a recent study in JAMA found.
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The National Institute on Drug Abuse found that the Midwest saw opioid overdoses increase 2628 percent from July 28500 through September 6900" and "[o]pioid overdoses in large cities increased by 2628 percent in 28503 states.
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The main driver for overdoses in BC is opioids, with fentanyl—the deadly painkiller responsible for skyrocketing overdose rates across Canada—taking up 31 percent of all overdoses in 2015, compared to just five percent in 2012.
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The overdoses came as a dire new report from the Centers for Disease Control on Wednesday showed that drug overdoses killed around 72,000 people in the U.S. in 2017, a record-breaking rise of about 10 percent.
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In 2017 there were 2,700 heroin related fatal overdoses in New Jersey.
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More people die from drug overdoses than from guns or car accidents.
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In 1999, just 6% of all overdoses were related to the drug.
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Every day 116 people die from opioid-related drug overdoses in America.
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Only 6% of all overdoses were related to the drug in 1999.
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You can see that she's thinking of her own son's multiple overdoses.
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No deaths have been reported as a result of the mass overdoses.
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This is not the first outbreak of overdoses related to synthetic cannabinoids.
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Last year, there were at least 112 fatal overdoses in Rhode Island.
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But since 2005, eleven people here have died here from opioid overdoses.
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This pathway is the reason that heroin and fentanyl overdoses kill people.
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Her facility has recorded six cases of cocaine-fentanyl overdoses, she said.
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"We've worked more heroin overdoses than I can count," he told CNN.
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Several celebrities this year have gone through rehabilitation treatments due to overdoses.
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But, Tyndall asks, why wait to reverse overdoses of poisoned street drugs?
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At the operating room, it alerted 19 of the 20 simulated overdoses.
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In other words, about 237 people died from opioid overdoses every day.
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Police claim at least 12 of his patients died from drug overdoses.
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Overdoses require naxolone, in higher doses than heroin or other synthetic opioids.
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Between the lines: Rural Appalachia has higher death rates from drug overdoses.
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Tens of thousands of Americans are dying from opioid overdoses each year.
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As opioid sales quadrupled from 1999 to 2011, deaths from overdoses rocketed.
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The United States is dealing with a major epidemic of opioid overdoses.
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Go deeper: There are more opioid overdoses in the suburbs than ever
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In 2014, nearly 19,000 Americans died from overdoses linked to opioid painkillers.
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In 2015, more Americans died from prescription opioid overdoses than from heroin.
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Hallucinogens (LSD, Mushrooms) The overdoses on these drugs usually mean psychosis i.e.
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It's not uncommon for drug overdoses to involve more than one substance.
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While the death toll in the county is slowing, overdoses are increasing.
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He was experiencing low moods and paranoid thoughts, and had taken overdoses.
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In 1999-20033 more than 165,000 Americans died from prescription-opioid overdoses.
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Overdoses make sense from a narrative perspective, but mechanically, it's a wash.
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Authorities began investigating Francis following a rash of overdoses in the area.
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For every person who overdoses, there are thousands more who are suffering.
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Suicide tends to be under-reported, especially when it involves drug overdoses.
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Hundreds of Americans have died in fentanyl-related overdoses in recent years.
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More than six out of 10 of these overdoses involved an opioid.
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Drug overdoses overall are killing more Americans than guns or car accidents.
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That year, oxycodone ranked first, involving 13 percent of all fatal overdoses.
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Each year, 22019,000 Americans die from suicide and 44,000 from drug overdoses.
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In Massachusetts, more than four people a day die from drug overdoses.
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He has seen his share of overdoses, suicides, hangings and car crashes.
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Rates of heroin overdoses and obesity are among the highest in America.
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Opioids, primarily prescription painkillers, heroin and fentanyl, are fueling the drug overdoses.
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Indeed, more than 30 percent of overdoses concerning opioids also involve benzodiazepines.
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The app is intended to alert these antidote carriers when someone overdoses.
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Hundreds of Canadians have died in recent years from fentanyl overdoses alone.
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Worth highlighting: Unintentional injuries include car crashes, falls, and most drug overdoses.
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Read This Next: The Faces of Americans Who Died From Opioid Overdoses
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Elvekjaer begins our session by clearing up a prevalent misconception about overdoses.
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The other overdoses didn't scare me because I wasn't afraid of dying.
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For example, 41 percent of cocaine overdoses also included fentanyl in 2016.
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More than 1,300 of those donors, or 13%, died from drug overdoses.
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A few years on, he found seven overdoses on a single page.
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One recent week, Huntington, with a population of 48,000, recorded 29 overdoses.
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About 200,000 more have died from overdoses involving illegal opioids, like heroin.
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And soon, overdoses caused by fentanyl, a more powerful opioid, began rising.
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And deaths are rising as baby boomers age and drug overdoses surge.
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Local hospitals treated 51 overdoses in a 48-hour period in June.
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Decriminalization also made it easier to fight infectious diseases and treat overdoses.
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Both were killed by meth overdoses, and many suspect Buck was responsible.
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Every day, nearly 200 people across the country die from drug overdoses.
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We get the most stabbings, shootings and drug overdoses on this shift.
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Nearly 500 people still die of overdoses in New Hampshire each year.
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Naloxone is an effective and easily administered therapy to counter opioid overdoses.
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The time to reverse the trend of opioid drug overdoses is now.
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More than 218,000 Americans have died from overdoses of all prescription opioids.
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Nearly 22012 people still die of overdoses in New Hampshire each year.
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Even among those with heroin overdoses, less than half got this diagnosis.
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The company will also donate "rescue" drugs to treat addiction and overdoses.
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The test could also be used in emergency situations, such as overdoses.
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The medics gave them doses of Narcan, the drug that reverses overdoses.
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Last year, 299 people in Milwaukee County died of drug-related overdoses.
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Since they graduated, more than 400,000 Americans have died from opioid overdoses.
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Drug overdoses, suicides, alcohol-related illnesses and obesity are largely to blame.
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As recently as 2001, fewer than 10,000 Americans died of opioid overdoses.
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The group also faces pressure on the epidemic of opioid overdoses. Sen.
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Each day, more than 2628 Americans die from heroin and opioid overdoses.
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Indeed, the scourge of overdoses has for years been growing in intensity.
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Drug overdoses now cause more deaths than gun violence and car crashes.
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So opioid painkiller overdoses steadily increased, reaching epidemic levels by the 2010s.
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CityLab also points out one possible explanation for Kentucky's dominance of this awful chart: Kentucky has some of the highest rates of drug overdoses in the US, with some cities like Louisville seeing horrifying spikes in drug overdoses.
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The commission cited government data showing that since 1999 U.S. opioid overdoses have quadrupled, adding that nearly two thirds of U.S. drug overdoses were linked to opioids such as heroin and the powerful painkillers Percocet, OxyContin and fentanyl.
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The Tompkins County Health Department does not break out overdoses by municipality, but in 2014, the most recent year for which data is available, there were 14 fatal overdoses in the county, where Ithaca is the only city.
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Still, he said the area has a multidisciplinary approach to fighting overdoses, involving representatives from a variety of local agencies, and that they saw an overall decline in the amount of overdoses last year versus the year before.
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More than 22017,238 people died in 2015 from overdoses caused by prescription pills and illicit drugs such as heroin, and West Virginia has the highest rate of fatal overdoses in the country, with 41.5 deaths per 100,000 residents.
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More than 33,000 people died in 2015 from overdoses caused by prescription pills and illicit drugs such as heroin, and West Virginia has the highest rate of fatal overdoses in the country, with 41.5 deaths per 100,000 residents.
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Most opioid overdoses happen at home, but schools are not immune from the crisis, with reports of overdoses even in schoolteachers, such as a New York City special education teacher who died in a high school bathroom last year.
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Today, drug overdoses cause more deaths than car accidents or shootings, yet public awareness campaigns to educate all ages about opioid overdoses are still far from reaching the levels that public service announcements for seatbelts and drunk driving achieved.
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Wednesday's action follows an incident at an Ohio prison earlier in the day in which 15 officers, four nurses and an inmate suffered suspected opioid overdoses and were treated with Naloxone, a drug to counteract the symptoms of overdoses.
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Then a third wave of overdoses began, as illicit fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, started to supplant heroin in the black market — causing another spike in overdoses, since fentanyls are generally more potent than heroin or other traditionally consumed opioids.
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Guns kill more people than AIDS, war, illegal drug overdoses, and terrorism combined.
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In total, more than 33,000 people in the U.S. died from opioid overdoses.
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Medical errors, it turns out, cause more deaths than AIDS or drug overdoses.
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Increased availability of naloxone for emergency treatment of overdoses is an important step.
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Most of the overdoses in 2015 were white Americans aged 45-54 years.
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The researchers found that opioids were also frequently involved in these fatal overdoses.
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But there's also the impact of rising drug overdoses and suicides, he noted.
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Paramedics also dealt with overdoses of alcohol, prescription medications and other controlled substances.
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A spike in heroin overdoses causes problems for a medical facility in Kentucky.
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US government statistics estimate that 130 people die every day from opioid overdoses.
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Fentanyl deaths are now more numerous than either heroin or painkiller pill overdoses.
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Steyer appears to have conflated the number of overdoses overall with opioid deaths.
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A dozen of those overdoses were reported within a 48 hour time frame.
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This is the second year that CDC analyzed fatal overdoses in this way.
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This episode he's particularly asshole-ish because Shay (Kim Director) overdoses on drugs.
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And along with the increase in prescriptions has come an increase in overdoses.
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If someone overdoses, nurses are on hand to administer naloxone and revive them.
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Sadly, several celebrity deaths — including Tom Petty and Prince — have involved fentanyl overdoses.
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Some 28,000 people die of drug overdoses; 30,000 are killed in traffic fatalities.
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Dustin French, 29, had four drug overdoses in the span of a year.
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About 1,000 people died of opioid overdoses in Connecticut last year, Tong said.
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But often after a patient overdoses, little or nothing changes in their treatment.
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In 2014, more than 14,000 Americans died from overdoses of prescription opioids alone.
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Deaths from overdoses and AIDS declined by more than 50% in a decade.
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Medical marijuana would not stop all of these overdoses, but it could help.
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Narcan is used to counteract overdoses of opiates such as heroin or oxycodone.
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Some doctors say it could help ease the national epidemic of drug overdoses.
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It should have stated drug overdoses were the leading cause of unintentional death.
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It should have stated drug overdoses overall kill more people than car accidents.
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And all along the way, tens of thousands have died of opioid overdoses.
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"Overdoses are becoming more complicated due to the mixing of drugs," Gaeta says.
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In the ER, charcoal is used to treat drug overdoses and severe poisoning.
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Officials attributed the spike to soaring numbers of heroin overdoses in the region.
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Law enforcement officials and paramedics are inundated with calls to attend to overdoses.
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That's 142 American deaths from drug overdoses every day, according to the commission.
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He's concerned that Middletown simply doesn't have the money to keep treating overdoses.
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She goes back to her suite at the Plaza and overdoses on quaaludes.
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People of all backgrounds, races, ethnicities and incomes are dying from drug overdoses.
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Crisis in Philadelphia Drug overdoses nationwide more than tripled from 2200 to 220.
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Millions became addicted in America; in 2014 nearly 20,000 people died from overdoses.
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There are people dying of overdoses and rapes and actual shit that matters.
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Read This Next: The Government is Making it Harder to Prevent Drug Overdoses
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The rate of fatal overdoses from synthetic opioids doubled over the same period.
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"Nearly half the players had died of overdoses, or were addicted," he said.
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The leading causes, once again, are more deaths from drug overdoses and suicides.
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There were blackouts and overdoses, visits to the hospital; there was jail time.
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How will they increase access to treatment centers and help to prevent overdoses?
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Drug overdoses, rather, are increasing at a slower rate than they have previously.
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On January 18th, county officials started using a new app to record overdoses.
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The reverse was true, however, for overdoses related to other types of opioids.
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Preliminary data shows that reported drug overdoses declined in 2018 by 4.2 percent.
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Among African-Americans, the number of opioid overdoses rose by more than half.
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The United States is suffering from an epidemic of opioid use and overdoses.
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The police say that mass overdoses are often linked to one bad batch.
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More than 100 Americans die daily from related overdoses, according to the CDC.
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Opioid overdoses have reached epidemic levels, according to the Center for Disease Control.
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Drug overdoses now kill more people in the United States than car crashes.
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Two-thirds of emergency room visits involving overdoses are due to prescription drugs.
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Read This Next: Police Officer Overdoses Just From Brushing Fentanyl Off His Uniform
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We had an outbreak of fentanyl-laced heroin overdoses in 2005 in Chicago.
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More Americans now die from drug overdoses than from car crashes per year.
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The Staten Island district attorney's office is investigating 59 suspected overdoses this year.
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First, re drug overdoses actually the main cause of the lower life expectancy?
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The drug, which reverses overdoses, has saved some 2171.5,21498 Baltimore residents since 22005.
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For example, over 2012-15, cocaine overdoses claimed 7.6 per 100,000 black men.
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Mr. Trump also cited his border wall as a way to reduce overdoses.
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Obama noted that overdoses are often the result of drugs prescribed by doctors.
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Read This Next: The Government Is Making it Harder to Prevent Drug Overdoses
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Drug overdoses have now killed 998 British Columbians over the last 12 months.
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In 2016, we lost 64,000 Americans to drug overdoses: 174 deaths per day.
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Overdoses have already surpassed last year, and Vance's own mother struggles with addiction.
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New Haven Police arrested two men on Wednesday in connection to the overdoses.
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The scientific literature contains a number of case reports of overdoses, some fatal.
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While naloxone reverses opioid overdoses, it also stops the other effects of opioids.
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According to the state's lawyers, over 6,000 Oklahomans have died from opioid overdoses.
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Drug overdoses have become the leading cause of death for Americans under 50.
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Ibuprofen has some known risks; overdoses can damage the kidneys in vulnerable patients.
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After two overdoses that required hospitalization, his wife insisted that he get help.
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Yes, but: Overdoses involving fentanyl, cocaine and meth are all continuing to increase.
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No waivers were issued for a history of drug overdoses or suicide attempts.
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In 2016, we lost 64,000 Americans to drug overdoses: 174 deaths per day.
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His new plan specifically addresses "deaths of despair," which include overdoses and suicides.
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Family members and medics had been able to revive him after earlier overdoses.
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Pennsylvania has one of the highest rates of drug overdoses in the country.
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The count also does not include ambiguous deaths, such as from drug overdoses.
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In 22019, we lost 64,000 Americans to drug overdoses: 174 deaths per day.
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Drug overdoses are now the leading cause of death among Americans under 50.
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We are back in Spanish flu territory because of suicides and drug overdoses.
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Vitamin D overdoses also can lead to weakness, frequent urination and kidney problems.
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In 123 benzo overdoses accounted for 212,216 deaths, up from 22016,135 in 1999.
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The relationship between ObamaCare expansion and drug overdoses isn't just a chance coincidence.
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Recent studies also indicate Medicaid expansion may have increased opioid abuse and overdoses.
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In Ohio, at least 28500 people die each day due to drug overdoses.
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New York saw more than 1,000 fatal overdoses due to opioids in 2016.
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Deaths from overdoses had been on a downward trend from 2008 until 2012.
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And, in larger cities, opioid overdoses increased by 54 percent across 16 states.
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The principal reasons are not disease, but suicides and drug and alcohol overdoses.
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A flood of opioid overdoses has overwhelmed Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, and West Virginia
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Emergency medical workers revived him with Narcan, the antidote that reverses opioid overdoses.
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Previous studies have documented the trend of fatal overdoses increasingly involving a cocktail of opioids and other drugs like stimulants and cocaine, but the current analysis offers fresh evidence that it holds true for nonfatal overdoses, too, the study team notes.
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Deaths from drug overdoses have risen sharply among white Americans, particularly men between 25 to 34, though the rate of deaths from overdoses for black or Hispanics has remained largely flat, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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"Nobody really knows, because we don't know the total number of overdoses," Boyer says.
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Mason said he would ensure naloxone, used to treat overdoses, is more readily available.
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Opioids overall were linked to 33,000 fatal overdoses across the United States in 2015.
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That's a medication sold under the brand name Narcan used to treat opioid overdoses.
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Last year, there were 70,237 deaths attributed to drug overdoses in the United States.
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Since 2013, the number of deaths from overdoses involving synthetic opioids have jumped sharply.
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They kill more people annually than breast cancer, AIDS, plane crashes, or drug overdoses.
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Calls to 911 go way down, overdoses go way down, just by adding food.
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In 20173, just about 1 percent of all organ donors died from drug overdoses.
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In 3703, just about 2370 percent of all organ donors died from drug overdoses.
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CRANE: Louisville, Kentucky, is the latest city to experience a spike in heroin overdoses.
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Huntington has also seen a drop in overdoses, down 40% from 133 to 2018.
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Overall, economic factors explained less than one-tenth of the overdoses, the study found.
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In 2015, about 753 people in the US died every day from opioid overdoses.
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In the first, from 1999 to 2010, overdoses quadrupled because of prescription pain pills.
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Vancouver's supervised injection site alone has rescued people from more than 6,000 potential overdoses.
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Still, 28503,22020 people died from drug overdoses last year, the second-highest number recorded.
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In 2014, more than 10,000 people died from overdoses on that drug as well.
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"We should be very concerned that many overdoses are unrecognized suicide attempts," Gold said.
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It examined the rate of deaths caused by opioid overdoses between 1999 and 2010.
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In 1003, Americans had fatal drug overdoses at a rate of 6 per 100,000.
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Last year, overdoses killed more people in the US than the entire Vietnam War.
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This is not where the country should want to end up on drug overdoses.
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Fatal prescription-drug overdoses in the United States have increased sharply in recent years.
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Synan said the county has seen close to 90 heroin overdoses since this weekend.
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The rising prominence of heroin overdoses in western Pennsylvania prompted Mariani's innovation, he said.
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According to the CDC, deaths from opioid overdoses reached a record 28,647 in 2014.
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Last spring, there were 19 K2 overdoses on one day in Syracuse, New York.
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McClure has grown accustomed to drug overdoses -- his crew responds daily to such calls.
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America's opioid epidemic is affecting overdoses involving a wholly different class of drugs: cocaine.
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A total 1,089 people died during 2014 of opioid-related overdoses, the department said.
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That's the most deaths since 2100 people died from heroin-related overdoses in 243.
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Drug overdoses have, shockingly, become the leading cause of death among Americans under 28503.
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They didn't include deaths from falls, drowning, drug overdoses, stabbings, fire or undetermined status.
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But Monroe and other players are concerned about addiction and the potential for overdoses.
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The death rate from drug overdoses was 21% higher in 2016 than in 2015.
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Researchers analyzed claims for 301 people who had nonfatal overdoses in 2014 and 2015.
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In fact, nearly half of all opioid overdoses in 2015 were from prescription painkillers.
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The study wasn't designed to explain why more overdoses are being treated in ICUs.
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Unfortunately, the question of how often overdoses are really suicides is far more complex.
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The reports come at a time when deaths from opioid overdoses continue to rise.
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These countries do not have thousands of people dying from overdoses like we do.
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Helton struggled with opioid addiction from ages 18 to 28 and survived several overdoses.
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Prescription opioid death rates began to slow, but overdoses involving heroin more than quintupled.
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The vast majority of opioid overdoses are accidental due to a lack of education.
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As Presley's drug consumption continued in the 1970s, he suffered overdoses and acted erratically.
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The number of total drug overdoses jumped 54% each year between 2011 and 2016.
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After seven years and at least 25 overdoses, he says he has never failed.
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That means in 2015, in the United States, there were over 900,000 opioid overdoses.
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Two other men have died of meth overdoses there, in 2017 and this January.
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For example, in the opioid epidemic we can reverse overdoses using the medication Naloxone.
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In fact, more than three out of five drug overdoses in America involve opioids.
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Forty-four people a day are dying from opiate overdoses, according to the CDC.
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By comparison, in 2504, prescription drugs were involved in 23% of all deadly overdoses.
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Fortunately, most overdoses treated with naloxone occur in young patients who tolerate side effects.
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Nine people died of heroin overdoses in a recent 503-day period, prosecutors said.
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Tracking and reporting of nonfatal overdoses is another area states are seeking to improve.
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In Ontario, more than 5,000 people died from opiate overdoses between 2000 and 2013.
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This is a waste, Lurie says, considering how many overdoses it could have reversed.
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There, he has seen firsthand a growing number of overdoses and opioid-related deaths.
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Last year, 272 people died from opioid overdoses — a 31 percent increase from 13.
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Nancy Irwin, therapist and clinical hypnotist, Los Angeles, CAI've lost two patients to overdoses.
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But as heroin and fentanyl overdoses rise, the epidemic will demand an evolving response.
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As of 2016, fentanyl was the drug most commonly linked to overdoses in America.
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According to the latest estimates, overdoses involving opioids killed nearly 235,218 people last year.
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"I did a little math," he said, alluding to the rising number of overdoses.
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More than 42,000 people are believed to have died from opioid overdoses in 2016.
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Much like affected withdrawal scenes, overdoses in film and TV tend to be unrealistic.
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Opioid prescriptions have been falling, even as the death rates from overdoses are rising.
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Geraets-Timmersman says most overdoses she encounters, however, are either from ecstasy or GHB.
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MINNEAPOLIS — There were overdoses nearly every day in the grim homeless encampment near downtown.
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From overdoses alone, the National Institute on Drug Abuse reports 20083,600 deaths in 2017.
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Other times people die due to sex-linked overdoses or other drug-related complications.
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According to the latest estimates, overdoses involving opioids killed nearly 50,000 people last year.
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The airplane, however, did not carry naloxone, the antidote that can reverse opioid overdoses.
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An increasing number are dying from overdoses, both from prescription medication and street drugs.
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There have been 123 overdoses through April, and most are brought back with oxygen.
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The intersection also is one of the epicenters of the recent wave of overdoses.
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Evzio was seen by addiction experts as an easier way to stop fatal overdoses.
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Yet four times as many people die today from drug overdoses than in 1990.
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Fatal overdoses from prescription painkillers in the United States tripled between 2001 and 2016.
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For adolescents, the training is as much about destigmatizing drug use as reversing overdoses.
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Many of his victims' deaths were initially believed to be the result of overdoses.
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Newsbook Drug overdoses are now the leading cause of death among Americans under 50.
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Feature New Hampshire has the second-highest rate of drug overdoses in the country.
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No, this is the epidemic of drug overdoses fueled by an ongoing opioid epidemic.
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Drug overdoses increased 6.5 percent in 2014 from a year earlier, killing 47,055 people.
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In 2007, opioid overdoses claimed the lives of 256 Baltimoreans—four-fifths from heroin.
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But the numbers of young people dying from overdoses around the country is striking.
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The results are all the more notable given the recent surge in fentanyl overdoses.
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The potency of those drugs vary widely, leading to more overdoses by drug users.
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Nearly 50,000 Americans died from opioid overdoses last year – more than from car accidents.
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Deaths from heroin overdoses have more than tripled since 2010, according to federal data.
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People who provide the drugs that lead to overdoses often need help, not prison.
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So more people will die of drug overdoses that could have otherwise been prevented.
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Officials say the overdoses may be linked to the same contaminated batch of heroin.
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As reports of overdoses grew, Richard Sackler urged the company to blame the patients.
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These numbers include overdoses from heroin, which works the same way as opioid pills.
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Since then, hundreds more people across the country have died from opioid-related overdoses.
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A majority of fatal overdoses took place in Germany, the UK, and in Sweden.
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So without as many opioids around, a lot of overdoses may have been prevented.
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A number of initiatives have aimed to tackle drug overdoses, such as addressing opioid prescription guidelines and distributing naloxone, which reverses overdoses, according to Dave Thomas, a program official in the National Institute on Drug Abuse's Division of Epidemiology Services and Prevention Research.
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Three-hundred fifty people in the county have died from drug overdoses in 2016, and it is projected to have 20143 fatalities caused by opioid drug overdoses by the end of the year, doubling the number from the previous year, according to Harris.
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One unrelated recent study looked at the underreported drug information on US death certificates and found that in 2008, 25.4% of the total 36,450 fatal overdoses did not identify a specific drug, compared with 19.5% of the 47,055 overdoses in 2014, he said.
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But we do know that for the past decade, people younger than 25 have accounted for between 10 and 12 percent of all fatal opioid-linked overdoses — and that, after years of decline, such overdoses among kids ages 15 to 25 have spiked.
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"The number of donors who died of overdoses increased over the past year," Klassen said.
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Meanwhile the city has faced rising rates of drug overdoses, alcohol-related deaths, and suicides.
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" Murphy added that the U.S. is, in fact, the world leader in "overdoses of opiates.
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At this point, though, there have been no reported deaths in connection to the overdoses.
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And several outbreaks of synthetic pot overdoses have hit other states, including New York, recently.
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West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania had the three highest age-adjusted rates of fatal overdoses.
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In 21999, 22014,295 Americans died from drug overdoses, while about 4.53,24.5 people in Asia did.
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Experts believe that, in America, a person overdoses every single second on pot cookies alone.
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With nearly 100 people dying from opioid-related overdoses every single day, this is inexcusable.
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Now the drug and its chemical cousins are the country's leading cause of fatal overdoses.
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Opioid overdoses can be deadly because these drugs slow breathing, reducing the body's oxygen supply.
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Why it matters: More than 200,000 people have died from prescription opioid overdoses since 1999.
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Since then, the country's prevalence of HIV infection, drug-related imprisonment and overdoses have dropped.
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More than 1,000 people a day are treated in emergency departments for prescription opioid overdoses.
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Why have deaths from drug overdoses surged in nearly every county across the United States?
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Since 2000, some 6,000 Oklahomans have died from opioid overdoses, according to the states lawyers.
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Then, the columnists discuss the increasing rise of deaths from drug overdoses, alcohol and suicide.
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Since 2000, some 6,000 Oklahomans have died from opioid overdoses, according to the state's lawyers.
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The primary cause, they concluded, was a trio of despair: suicide, alcoholism, and drug overdoses.
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In 2015, more than 52,000 people died of drug overdoses, most of them from opioids.
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Most of those overdoses are attributed to people abusing opioids such as painkillers and heroin.
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In 2574 days, one batch was responsible for at least 22010 deaths and 6473 overdoses.
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Another 32 people were hospitalized, some for drug overdoses and others for injuries during raves.
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In 2014, 2246 people died of drug overdoses in New Hampshire, according to the CDC.
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The DEA issued a national health alert over the rise in fentanyl overdoses in 2015.
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GHB use declined in response to the abundance of overdoses and increased stigma toward use.
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There were overdoses and an overdose ... Which were directly linked to ... Which were directly linked.
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About a decade ago, Klassen said, drug overdoses accounted for 3% of the donor population.
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Rates of opioid-related overdoses in Louisiana, Alabama, and Indiana also doubled using Ruhm's model.
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The drug, known for reversing overdoses, can save heroin users on the brink of death.
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A new number will emerge from this day: 28 overdoses in a five-hour span.
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The complex is within a stone's throw of where first responders earlier treated seven overdoses.
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In spite of today's overdoses, Andrea chases her fix and chooses to shoot up anyway.
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Overdoses everywhere Lt. McClure marches up a footpath that cuts through brush behind Marcum Terrace.
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Last year, over 63,000 people died of drug overdoses, a 21 percent increase from 2015.
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An estimated 59,000 people died from overdoses in 2016 — a 19% increase compared to 2015.
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Does better detection of these kinds of overdoses explain at least some of the deaths?
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A father and son both died from apparent heroin overdoses early Sunday morning, PEOPLE confirms.
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"This type of precision enables us to prevent crime and overdoses, saving lives," O'Neill said.
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The Narcan, used to reverse opioid overdoses, was reportedly administered by EMTs arriving on scene.
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In fact, more than half of those 33,000 deaths were from overdoses of prescription opioids.
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Aetna will waive copays for Narcan, a medication that reverses opioid overdoses, starting Jan. 1.
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We aren't just talking about police, firefighters, or paramedics, who respond to calls about overdoses.
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In 260, 253 people died of drug overdoses in New Hampshire, according to the CDC.
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Guides for fentanyl have been passed around the deep web, to help guard against overdoses.
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Sadly, opioid overdoses claim the lives of more than 100 Americans each and every day.
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Overdoses from the category of drugs nearly quadrupled between 1999 and 2015, the CDC said.
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Opioid overdoses have reached epidemic levels, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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"When somebody overdoses there isn't always time to get them to a hospital," Catlin said.
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Our outreach team is going to be trained in doing naloxone injections to prevent overdoses.
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"Had they happened unsupervised, half of those overdoses would have resulted in deaths," Mortensen evaluates.
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"Offenders in Virginia have died of drug overdoses while inside our prisons," Lisa Kinney said.
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This underestimates the scale of the epidemic, because many overdoses do not prompt 911 calls.
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When someone overdoses, their body is being overwhelmed by a toxic amount of a substance.
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Opiate overdoses are increasingly taking the lives of our loved ones, neighbors, colleagues and celebrities.
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Beshear's lawsuit also alleges that 1,404 people in Kentucky died from drug overdoses in 2016.
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In the 2011-16 period examined, the number of drug overdoses involving methadone has dropped.
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Since 2000, some 6,000 Oklahomans have died from opioid overdoses, according to the state's lawyers.
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Its effects are milder, however, and they plateau, making overdoses less likely — and less deadly.
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Preliminary agency data released last month showed about 68,85033 people died from overdoses in 2018.
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Since OxyContin, a time-released opioid, was introduced in 1996, addiction and overdoses have surged.
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Josh Bruno has now attended five funerals for friends who have died of drug overdoses.
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Federal officials have been struggling in recent years to stem the epidemic of opioid overdoses.
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In 2014, overdoses represented about 40 percent of the deaths they handled, the Goldblatts said.
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The move comes against the backdrop of a public health crisis involving heroin-related overdoses.
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This effort came as the rate of deaths from opioid overdoses has quadrupled since 1999.
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Over four years, I saw several people die and more overdoses than I could count.
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This rising death rate mainly reflected suicide, alcohol and overdoses of drugs, notably prescription opioids.
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For all the complexities around drugs, people can understand overdoses, and discussion can start there.
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Two of my friends had died from heroin overdoses by the time I was 22.
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The problem for me was that I never really felt the impact of my overdoses.
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Second, what is driving the demand for drugs of potential abuse that contribute to overdoses?
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As importantly, it will require us to realize that suicides and overdoses have common drivers.
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Drug overdoses are now the leading cause of accidental death in Americans under age 50.
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That year, more than 72,000 people died of overdoses — or nearly 200 people a day.
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Read: Inside a safe injection site that breaks the law but prevents overdoses California Gov.
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Overdoses are now the leading cause of death for adults under 55, the data show.
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Overdoses from heroin and other opioids now kill an average of 78 Americans every day.
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Naloxone, for example, binds to opioid receptors, but is actually used to reverse opioid overdoses.
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Overdoses are an almost daily occurrence, typically racking up between two to five a week.
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A bleak record: Drug overdoses killed about 72,000 Americans in 2017, according to C.D.C. estimates.
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What's the cause of so many suicides and overdoses and a rise in excessive drinking?
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Last year, 64,000 Americans died from drug overdoses, up 22 percent from the previous year.
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The surge in drug overdoses has been pushed by criminally irresponsible companies like Purdue Pharma.
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Staff members have been able to reverse all eight overdoses that have occurred on-site.
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"Offenders in Virginia have died of drug overdoses while inside our prisons," Ms. Kinney said.
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Purdue would also contribute several drugs in its pipeline designed to treat addiction and overdoses.
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After the authorities shut down the Toluca lab in May 2006, the overdoses soon stopped.
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In 2016, 33 people in Brooklyn were made ill from suspected overdoses of synthetic pot.
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Deaths from overdoses dropped by 4.1 percent in 2018, to 67,367 from 70,237 in 2017.
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Almost all of the overdoses occurred on the New Haven Green, a large downtown park.
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Deaths from overdoses are reaching levels similar to the H.I.V. epidemic at its peak. 29.
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In 2015, West Virginia had the highest rate of fatal drug overdoses in the nation.
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Farm bureaus' attention to seed, fertilizer and subsidies has been diverted to discussions of overdoses.
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Nearly half of the alcohol-related deaths were the result of liver disease or overdoses.
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The Naloxone is the active ingredient in Narcan, which is used to counteract opioid overdoses.
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The agency says illegally manufactured non-pharmaceutical fentanyl, and related overdoses, are a rising problem.
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Fatal overdoses are one manifestation of this tragedy, but there are also frightening ripple effects.
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By 2017, heroin and fentanyl played a role in 78.1 percent of opioid overdoses. Sen.
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They'd see her after overdoses and visit her in the "nasty places" she called home.
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Overall fatal drug overdoses related to fentanyl skyrocketed more than 1,000% between 640 and 2016.
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Deaths attributable to opioid overdoses accounted for 400,000 deaths in the U.S. between 1999-21625.
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More than 165,000 Americans died from overdoses related to prescription opioids from 1999 to 2014.
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Sixty-four thousand people died from drug overdoses, including opioids and illegal drugs, last year.
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The national emergency of overdoses across the country is finally getting the attention of policymakers.
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In fact, nearly 1353 percent of fatal overdoses blamed primarily on opioids also involved benzodiazepines.
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People that I grew up with were no longer here; they were dead from overdoses.
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If fentanyl-laced cocaine becomes more common, overdoses among black Americans could get much worse.
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In 2014, the latest year of data available, drug overdoses killed more than 47,433 people.
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Another 14 fatal overdoses in Akron have been attributed to carfentanil, according to the DEA.
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One woman lost two siblings and two nephews to overdoses in less than a year.
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Meanwhile, no deaths from marijuana overdoses have been reported, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration.
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In Manchester overdoses through early March were up 23 percent from this time last year.
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It also wasn't clear if overdoses were from prescription opioids or illegal drugs like heroin.
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But the alternative — the drug deals, the overdoses, the debilitation of his city — is worse.
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To better understand what role synthetic opioids such as fentanyl contributed to the use of these drugs, the researchers compared the death rates of overdoses from only stimulant use and compared it with the death rates of overdoses that involved both stimulants and opioids.
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A report from that meeting suggested a 6.7% underestimate of suicidal drug overdoses, and it may be even higher — medical examiners not identifying the drugs involved in fatal overdoses may have missed 70,000 opioid deaths between 1999 and 2015, according to a June report.
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Like the DEA, the Centers for Disease Control and prevention has issued a health advisory and is stepping in to get health providers and first responders to report fentanyl-related overdoses as well as expand access to naloxone, the drug that counteracts deadly opioid overdoses.
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Through the end of September, 12 people had died this year from drug overdoses in Aroostook County; statewide 22 people had died from overdoses through that date, already surpassing the 23 overdose deaths in all of 22, according to the Maine attorney general's office.
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With rising suicide rates and an increase in drug overdoses, American life expectancy is down again.
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Meanwhile, 70,237 people died of drug overdoses in 2017, the most ever in a single year.
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Naturally, that can lead states to underreport just how many people died of opioid-linked overdoses.
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"We're faced with this dilemma that we have thousands of people dying of overdoses," he said.
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In 2015, 3,264 people died from drug overdoses there, a 20.1% increase from the year before.
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The number of fatalities each day from opioid overdoses exceeds that of car accidents and homicides.
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The majority of overdoses involve illegal drugs like heroin and occur years after the initial prescription.
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The outbreak appears to have began Tuesday night, with reports of three overdoses near Yale University.
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More people are dying from overdoses on heroin and prescription pain medicine like oxycodone and fentanyl.
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And naloxone, used in emergencies to reverse overdoses, had become more widely distributed, probably saving lives.
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Sunday, to get a glimpse of what first responders are facing amid this wave of overdoses.
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Last year more Coloradans died from drug overdoses than at any time in the state's history.
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Fire Chief John Alston said that the first overdoses were reported on Wednesday around 8 a.m.
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In 2016, we lost 64,000 Americans to drug overdoses, 174 deaths per day, seven per hour.
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When someone overdoses, naloxone can be directly injected into the muscle or squirted into someone's nose.
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Obama announces new moves to fight opioid use How bad are opioid overdoses in the U.S.?
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Drug overdoses were increasing exponentially well before the surge in opioid prescribing in the mid-28.4s.
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Looking back at the overdoses, Danika said that they did little to push her to treatment.
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At first blush, this might suggest that expanded access to naloxone led to more nonfatal overdoses.
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New Hampshire, and the sobering statistics on drug overdoses there, is probably part of the answer.
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In 2015, more than 52,000 people died of drug overdoses, most of them because of opioids.
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The information shared included including details of drug overdoses, abortions, and whether individuals were HIV positive.
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Drug and alcohol overdoses were the largest contributing factor to death rate increase, the report said.
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Many celebrities have hid their addictions from the public, as multiple overdoses and deaths are reported.
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As a share of the town's population, overdoses kill more than ten times the American average.
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BC is on track to see more than 800 people die of opioid overdoses this year.
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In 2016 fatal overdoses increased by 26% in Connecticut, 35% in Delaware, and 39% in Maine.
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In 2017, drug overdoses killed a record number of people in the US — more than 70,000.
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Over 230 people died in 223 in Philadelphia from opioid overdoses, a 29% increase from 219.
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That's a sharper increase than alcohol, but opioid overdoses still appear to kill fewer people overall.
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In the intervening years, death rates from drug overdoses surged from 20173 to 22017 per 210,226.
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You know when your friend overdoses on drugs and you're upset because you won't make money?
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The overwhelming majority of heroin overdoses occurred among people between the ages of 19 and 35.
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Over 219 people died in 23 in Philadelphia from opioid overdoses, a 210% increase from 220.
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After her mom overdoses, Project Noah takes Amy in knowing that no one will miss her.
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Since 1999, some 200,000 Americans have died from overdoses related to OxyContin and other prescription opioids.
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When your rehab counselor goes out and overdoses however, it's an entirely different set of emotions.
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Deaths from overdoses of paracetamol (the active ingredient in Tylenol) dropped by 2108% in 22001 years.
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In West Virginia on Monday, there were 27 heroin overdoses within four hours, including one death.
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In just 10 days, one batch was responsible for at least 10 deaths and 48 overdoses.
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But a big reason for the decrease was the rise in alcohol poisonings and drug overdoses.
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Marijuana has never been definitively linked to any serious ailments — not deadly overdoses or lung disease.
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In New York City, some major venues closed, largely in response to so many GHB overdoses.
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After her aunt, Catherine purposely overdoses her on her medication, Ashley O slips into a coma.
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It has seen no deaths, no apparent neighborhood problems, and the onsite reversal of four overdoses.
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He was speaking in New Hampshire, another state devastated by the alarming spike in opioid overdoses.
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Drug overdoses are now the leading cause of death of Americans under the age of 50.
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That's on top of a slower rise in fentanyl-related overdoses over the last several years.
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After countless overdoses and rehab visits, and jail time, he died at the age of 13.
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In 2017 alone, Merry's EMTs have responded to nearly 1,000 overdoses, most of them involving heroin.
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Fatal overdoses have spiked in the city, most of them caused by potent, often adulterated opioids.
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Each day, nine people in New York die from opioid-related overdoses, according to the lawsuit.
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Many states have increased access to naloxone, a drug that counters the effects of heroin overdoses.
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Philadelphia last year saw about 900 fatal overdoses, up nearly 30% from 2015, municipal tallies show.
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Drug overdoses now kill more people each year than motor vehicle crashes, the White House noted.
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Over 85033,000 deaths from overdoses related to prescription opioids were reported in the U.S. in 2015.
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The addition of fentanyl makes the heroin a lot stronger and overdoses are occurring more frequently.
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According the Centers for Disease Control, between 1999 and 2014, opiate overdoses increased by 369 percent.
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The groups say that these ultra-high-dosage opioids increase risks for accidental overdoses and addiction.
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That represents just 1.4% of the 52,404 people who died of drug overdoses that same year.
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But while opioid use hasn't changed much, the number of drug overdoses is expected to grow.
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In 2017, 47,600 Americans died from opioid-involved overdoses, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
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U.S. life expectancy declined overall in 2017 due to an increase in drug overdoses and suicides.
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And of course, one major factor is the growing problem of drug overdoses tied to opioids.
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Heroin overdose rates were relatively low and stable during a period when opioid overdoses were soaring.
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Azar cautioned that it's too soon to declare victory, and that drug overdoses are not declining.
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To understand drug trends in fatal overdoses, the researchers looked at data from 2000 through 2015.
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Since 2009, more Americans have died every year from prescription opioid overdoses than from car crashes.
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This is the first-time overdoses have gone down, year-to-year, since the crisis began.
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In 25, the number of fatal heroin overdoses was 113,211, or 2316% of all drug fatalities.
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The authors of the new study also found that most overdoses involved more than one drug.
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Opioid death rates are highest in West Virginia, where overdoses killed 220006 in every 2202,2628 residents.
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Last year alone, an estimated 64,000 Americans died of drug overdoses, most of them from opioids.
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More Americans — more than 6900,2628 in 28503, according to U.S. health authorities — die annually from overdoses.
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In 2014 in Oklahoma, there were more people who died of drug overdoses than car crashes.
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To put it in perspective: Opioid overdoses kill more people every year than breast cancer. 5.
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Most of the overdoses in New Haven were in the city's neighborhoods of Newhallville and Dixwell.
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Our deputies are still encountering opiate overdoses, but now they're able to do something about it.
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Not buying insurance is no protection against heart attacks, drug overdoses, appendicitis, car accidents, and cancers.
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Two black men have turned up dead, most likely of overdoses, at his West Hollywood apartment.
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Since 2000, more than 300,000 Americans have died from overdoses involving opioids, according to the government.
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Unintentional injuries include accidental drug overdoses, which were the official cause of 63,600 deaths last year.
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The study does not include firearm injuries, hangings, "recreational" overdoses, jumping from heights or car accidents.
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Opioids were involved in 6900,2628 deaths nationwide in 28503, and opioid overdoses have quadrupled since 22019.
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In her initial remarks, the first lady lamented that 72,000 Americans died in 2017 from overdoses.
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Nationwide, 125 people a day die from drug overdoses, 78 of them from heroin and painkillers.
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According to the CDC, drug overdoses are the leading cause of unintentional death in the US.
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A kilo — enough to cause around 50 million fatal overdoses — sells for as little as $2,750.
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Such benefits could include antidotes to overdoses, or the creation of pain killers without addictive properties.
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Opioid drug overdoses now claim thousands of lives every day, including an increasing number of women.
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Last Friday, six Wilson students were treated by emergency personnel for possible overdoses at the school.
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Drug overdoses killed a record 72,000 Americans last year, driven by a surge in synthetic opioids.
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It is also often added to heroin, contributing to a rise of overdoses by unsuspecting users.
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But by keeping users from getting high, the medication would greatly reduce the risk of overdoses.
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France reduced heroin overdoses by nearly 80 percent by making buprenorphine easily available starting in 1995.
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The result: Drug companies profited as more and more people got addicted and died of overdoses.
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An officer told Ms. Schweinhart that the video of their overdoses would be on the news.
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Reviewing other research, the study found no good evidence that kratom alone has caused deadly overdoses.
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" Axios reported that Conway said Trump believes fentanyl dealers are causing mass overdoses "often with impunity.
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" But as advocates like Sulley point out, "supervised consumption sites don't exist to prevent just overdoses.
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Mass overdoses on K2 have happened regularly in New York City over the past few years.
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Twenty-eight overdoses were reported during the study, which ran from January 2014 through January 2017.
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Some of those opioid overdoses very well may have been reversed with better access to naloxone.
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What's happening: The increase in deaths and overdoses associated with BZDs has been driven by misuse.
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In Rhode Island, opioid overdoses are declining because people behind bars have access to effective treatment.
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Almost 64,0003 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2016, a shocking 54 percent increase since 2012.
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Relapses and overdoses skyrocketed, particularly after potent synthetic opioids like fentanyl and Carfentanil hit the street.
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Connecticut overdoses Dozens of people overdosed on drugs at a downtown park in New Haven, Connecticut.
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Four of the 9 deaths are believed to have been caused by drug or alcohol overdoses.
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Research has shown similar correlations between legal marijuana and the number of opioid prescriptions and overdoses.
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Buck's arrest came after months of public scrutiny, following two men's fatal overdoses inside his home.
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These are the highest death tolls from overdoses recorded in any single year in US history.
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They have also helped states get federal grants for treatment services and improved reporting of overdoses.
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Nationally, few cities have been spared as more than 400,000 Americans have died from opioid overdoses.
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Naloxone is used by police officers, first responders and emergency medical techs to reverse opioid overdoses.
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In Ohio, fentanyl overdoses jumped to 514 in 2014 from 92 a year earlier, for example.
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Like childhood itself, Cape Cod is more typically reminiscent of innocence than it is of overdoses.
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Drug overdoses have become the leading cause of injury deaths in the United States, it says.
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More than 64,000 Americans died from drug overdoses, mainly from prescription painkillers and heroin, in 2016.
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We need a strong commitment from policymakers to support initiatives to combat opioid abuse and overdoses.
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Where we lost nearly 2628,28503 people to opioid overdoses last year alone, Portugal lost 22019 people.
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Sadly, losing 6900 people each day in Ohio to drug overdoses has become our new normal.
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Now schools across the nation are preparing for what some believe is inevitable: Overdoses at schools.
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Some say the effort would be better directed toward communities and institutions that see more overdoses.
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Student overdoses have been rare in New York, but there are at least two known cases.
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Both of their deaths were caused by methamphetamine overdoses, the DA's office says in court documents.
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He gave no explanation aside from a vague reference to a rise in opioid-related overdoses.
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In August 2016 alone, two teenagers died of suspected drugs overdoses in a matter of days.
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A recent report claimed that two people a day die in Ontario due to opioid overdoses.
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That's more than the number killed in traffic collisions, from gun violence, or from opioid overdoses.
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"Overdoses made up a third of our autopsy cases last year and are growing," he says.
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There may be underlying factors that contributed to both the prescription of opioids and the overdoses.
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Carfentanil is the powerful synthetic opioid used commercially for subduing large animals but recently connected with hundreds of overdoses across the US. First responders have been using naloxone, also known by the brand name Narcan, as a life-saving measure to reverse the effect of overdoses.
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Between 2006 and 2010, an average of 106,10 Americans died each year from alcohol-related causes such as liver disease, alcohol poisoning and drunk driving—more than twice the number of overdoses from all drugs and more than triple the number of opioid overdoses in 2015.
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Trump's opioid commission, headed by Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, cited government data showing that since 1999 U.S. opioid overdoses have quadrupled, adding that nearly two-thirds of U.S. drug overdoses were linked to opioids such as heroin and the powerful painkillers Percocet, OxyContin and fentanyl.
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"Direct kratom overdoses from the life-threatening respiratory depression that usually occurs with opioid overdoses have not been reported," says Oliver Grundmann, clinical associate professor of medicinal chemistry at the University of Florida, who recently reviewed the research on kratom for the International Journal of Legal Medicine.
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Officially, in 20083, the nationwide mortality rate of opioid-related overdoses was 9 deaths per 100,000 people.
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There's a direct correlation between cutting off access to painkillers and increases in fatal overdoses from heroin.
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Last year, more than 63,600 people died of drug overdoses, up from more than 20163,400 in 2015.
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Several vendors have been charged with selling drugs that were used in overdoses, the Justice Department said.
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Prosecutors in other states still charge people connected to overdoses with felony-murder, manslaughter, and other offenses.
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In October, CNN published its findings on drug deaths, also finding a sharp rise in fatal overdoses.
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Karon Peoples, 24, is linked to a heroin conspiracy responsible for causing 27 overdoses and 9 deaths.
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More than 1,370 New Yorkers died from overdoses in 2016, the majority of those deaths involved opioids.
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One thing about the epidemic that's puzzling to investigators is how overdoses seem to come in clusters.
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And in times past, it would be unusual to have a -- you know, very many heroin overdoses.
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The availability of the drugs on the street has not helped much, fueling an epidemic of overdoses.
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In 210, more than 210,000 people in the U.S. died from opioid overdoses, according to the CDC.
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Soon after those deaths in Rhode Island, two more fatal overdoses turned up in Camden, New Jersey.
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That means that for $750, I could in theory purchase enough carfentanil for five million fatal overdoses.
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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 42,000 people died from opioid overdoses in 2016.
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Mothers crying, parents writing obituaries that frankly state that their sons and daughters died from heroin overdoses.
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Every officer, for example, is trained in the administration of Narcan, an opiate antidote that combats overdoses.
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In 2014, more than 47,000 people died from heroin and opiod drug overdoses, an all-time record.
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As recently as 2012, fewer than 200 of the cocaine overdoses reported by the CDC involved fentanyl.
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In 2016, fatal cocaine overdoses involving fentanyl but not heroin rose to 50% in New York City.
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Sumiton is in Walker County, Alabama, which has the highest rate of drug overdoses in the state.
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One is Willis Duncan, who couldn't quit opioids even after his son and wife died of overdoses.
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Of the roughly 8500 overdoses linked to benzodiazepines in 2015, roughly 90 percent also included an opioid.
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Most recently, nearly 2647 heroin overdoses in five days in western Cincinnati were linked to illicit fentanyl.
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The CDC disbursed some money to 20 states last month to improve their data collection on overdoses.
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The murder charges against Patrick are part of a growing push to treat fatal overdoses as homicides.
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The drugs that caused the overdoses are still unknown and the incidents are under investigation, authorities said.
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In August, 90 heroin overdoses that occurred within five days in western Cincinnati were linked to fentanyl.
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In mid-August, Cincinnati witnessed upwards of 200 heroin overdoses in a single week, grabbing national headlines.
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Fentanyl, heroin and prescription opioid overdoses led to almost 75-percent of those deaths, the study found.
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This is mainly because of the rapid increase in deaths from drug overdoses, opioids chief among them.
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It should have stated that drug overdoses overall are the leading cause of unintentional death for Americans.
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In 2004, there were 2,888 deaths from overdoses in that group; in 2000, the number totaled 26.7,226.
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This new entrepreneurial effort likely led to many deaths, overdoses, and addiction issues for J.D.'s clients.
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Officially, in 22014, the nationwide mortality rate of opioid-related overdoses was 222 deaths per 22008,2003 people.
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While deaths from overdoses and suicide are up, there were some hopeful notes in the CDC report.
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The study did not include injuries from firearms, hangings, "recreational" overdoses, jumping from heights, or car accidents.
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The CDC reported that deaths from drug overdoses rose from 16,848 in 1999 to 63,632 in 2016.
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At least 24 people were hospitalized for overdoses last month while attending a music festival in Ohio.
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Police suspect the heroin involved in Friday's Akron overdoses was laced with fentanyl or carfentanil, WEWS reported.
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In 2016 alone, drug overdoses likely killed more Americans in one year than the entire Vietnam War.
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Opioid overdoses have skyrocketed in recent years, leading state governments to commit millions to fighting the issue.
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Opioid-related overdoses kill 91 people in the United States each day, the Drug Enforcement Administration said.
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Between 2202 and 2628, more than 28500,6900 West Virginians died due to overdoses of hydrocodone and oxycodone.
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Under Picard's rules, if a user overdoses for a third time, the city won't send someone again.
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In fact, drug overdoses - most of them from opioids - kill more people than guns or car accidents.
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Officers administered Morasca, 37, with Narcan — a safe antidote to opioid overdoses — which she was revived with.
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The day Emily overdosed, Kennecke had been interviewing women whose children had died from opioid-involved overdoses.
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Deaths have also been rising from overdoses of prescription opioid painkillers, up to nearly 19,000 last year.
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More than 1,000 people in Philadelphia have died of overdoses every year for the last two years.
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The researchers then tracked any relapses, overdoses, and deaths in the groups over the following 24 weeks.
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This year's total could hit about 1,200 fatal overdoses, Drug Enforcement Agency Special Agent Patrick Trainor said.
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In 2016, Orleans Parish had more drug-related overdoses (211) than homicides (174), according to the DEA.
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And accidental drug-related overdoses in 2016 were more than double that of 2015, the coroner said.
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In modern history, few things have caused such a sharp spike in US deaths as drug overdoses.
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These patients also had higher rates of opioid-related health complications like falls, fractures, constipation, and overdoses.
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" "Some of the opiate or heroin overdoses in adolescents may be interpreted by emergency departments as suicides.
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And opioid overdoses in particular shaved about two and a half months from life expectancy at birth.
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In the past six months in Lancaster County, heroin overdoses were averaging eight a day, May said.
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Every American should be familiar with naloxone, which reverses the effects of overdoses and keeps people alive.
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On average, 125 people a day die from drug overdoses, 78 of them from heroin or painkillers.
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Since 1999, two hundred thousand Americans have died from overdoses related to OxyContin and other prescription opioids.
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Something had to be done, surely: More than 215,2120 people died from overdoses from 1999 to 2014.
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In what is now a national crisis, 33,000 people died in 2015 alone from opioid-related overdoses.
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In 2016, the rate of overdoses from opioid drugs in Maine was nearly double the national rate.
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Mortality from drug overdoses in the same age group shot up by 50% from 2014 to 2016.
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The legislation is aimed at tackling the number of opioid overdoses and deaths, local outlet WTVD reported.
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Please don't let the thousands of people who died from opioid overdoses last year be in vain.
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It affects the enzymes that control muscle contraction.. Overdoses can cause vomiting, seizures and loss of consciousness.
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At the time, oxycodone was the most commonly involved drug, representing 216% of all fatal drug overdoses.
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In Indiana, annual drug overdoses cost the state $1 billion, measuring medical expenses and lifetime earnings losses.
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The rate of drug overdoses involving the synthetic opioid spiked 113% each year from 2013 to 2020.
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Two other men have died of overdoses in Buck's home — one in 2017, and one this January.
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Both of their deaths were caused by meth overdoses, prosecutors said in court documents viewed by CNN.
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"There's this continual spiral, which can lead to overdoses, can lead to suicide and depression," she says.
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Many deaths were wrongly classified as suicides or drug overdoses or blamed on natural causes, they say.
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"At one point in the funeral home, we had three overdoses all laid out together," he said.
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An estimated 210 people a day die from drug overdoses, 29 of them from heroin and pills.
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He was now ingesting all manner of opiates—oxymorphone, hydrocodone, fentanyl, Dilaudid—and he suffered multiple overdoses.
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An Ohio government report notes that drug overdoses caused the deaths of 3,050 state residents in 2015.
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In August, the state reported an unprecedented 174 overdoses linked to carfentanil within a six-day span.
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Many of the overdoses come from the unintentional and likely unknown mix of fentanyl in the heroin.
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According to the CDC, drug overdoses have quadrupled since 1999, hitting hardest among white and Native Americans.
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Compared with treatment errors, such as medication overdoses or wrong-limb amputations, diagnostic errors receive little attention.
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It is 13 — not 125, which is the total number of deaths daily from all drug overdoses.
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It is 78 — not 125, which is the total number of deaths daily from all drug overdoses.
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Kids die of suicide, drug overdoses, reckless behavior, and parents don't' realize that CTE could be involved.
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Trump said he wanted to give first responders access to life-saving drugs that can reverse overdoses.
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In 2016, 42,249 people died from opioid-containing overdoses, a 28 percent increase from a year earlier.
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That means more people died from opioid overdoses in 2016 than died from guns or car accidents.
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Its purpose was to lower the supply of prescription drugs and decrease the number of opioid overdoses.
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In fact, Klassen noted that people who died of overdoses are usually good candidates for organ donation.
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Almost all of the overdoses occurred in New Haven Green, a large park in the city's downtown.
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But at hospitals like Primary Children's in Utah, drug overdoses now outstrip gun injuries among young people.
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More Bronx residents died of drug overdoses in 2016 than any other New York City borough — 308.
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Those drug overdoses, coupled with a rising suicide rate, pushed U.S. life expectancy lower, to 78.6 years.
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In 2016, roughly 64,000 people were killed by drug overdoses, including from prescription opioid painkillers and heroin.
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In the US, by comparison, more than 14,000 people died in 2014 from prescription opioid overdoses alone.
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Dayton, Ohio, had one of the highest death rates from opioid overdoses in the country in 2017.
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Recreational use of these drugs, the agency said, can have devastating consequences and lead to fatal overdoses.
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Of the 50,000 overdoses that year, nearly 30,000 of them were caused by heroin or prescription opioids.
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More than 63,000 people in the United States died from overdoses in 2016, according to federal data.
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The city made many changes, and fatal overdoses are down more than 50 percent from last year.
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This year, 45,000 Americans will take their lives, and more than 70,000 will die from drug overdoses.
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Overdoses linked to natural and semi-synthetic opioids like oxycodone and morphine are higher in rural counties.
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Overdoses involving opioids killed close to 50,000 in 2017, and 36% of those deaths involved prescription opioids.
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In total, more people have died from drug overdoses since 1999 than the current population of Boston.
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By 21, the rate of men dying from fentanyl overdoses was nearly three times that of women.
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Opioid-related overdoses surged 28 percent, killing 42,249 people, mostly in the 278.6-to-20.1 age group.
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They died of apparent methamphetamine overdoses, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said in court papers.
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Drug overdoses here have nearly tripled since 1999, and the state as a whole has been ravaged.
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The biggest factor in the increase in overdoses has been synthetic fentanyl and related highly toxic substances.
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Youth who used heroin were more than twice as likely to have repeat overdoses during the study.
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In 218, more than 234,343 people in the U.S. died from opioid overdoses, according to the CDC.
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From 22018 onwards, fentanyl use snowballed and so did fatal drug overdoses and new cases of HIV.
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Of the 13 states with the highest death rates from drug overdoses, five are in New England.
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The installation featured the names of 250 people who died from opioid overdoses on the museum's stairs.
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For example, in North Carolina, heroin and fentanyl contributed to 17.5 percent of opioid overdoses in 85033.
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These deaths have been linked to drug overdoses, suicides, and alcohol-related diseases, among other health problems.
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This age group experienced a nearly four-fold increase in fatal drug overdoses between 1999 and 2017.
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And the trend is getting worse, not better: in 28503, there were 22019,000 deaths from opioid overdoses.
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The number of recent overdoses of non-prescription drugs have eclipsed the original problem of prescribed painkillers.
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There are no "mass overdoses" to dominate a news cycle nor any singular moments of national tragedy.
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Drug overdoses killed almost 54,000 people in 2015, and the majority of those deaths involved an opioid.
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The responses range from tragic stories about overdoses and early deaths to more optimistic ones about recovery.
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The neighborhood, combined with Hunts Point, has the highest the rate of fatal overdoses in the city.
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Without needed mental health care, we will sadly see the costs include homelessness, incarceration, overdoses and suicides.
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From heart-valve infections to drug overdoses, the casualties of this epidemic wash up in our hospitals.
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And among women, gun deaths explained 4 percent, drug overdoses 9 percent, and car crashes 6 percent.
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Drug overdoses, fueled by opioid abuse, are now the leading cause of death for Americans under 50.
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In Puerto Rico, before Hurricane Maria, there were 600 fentanyl-related overdoses and 60 deaths in 2017.
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"It's a merry-go-round, and he can't get off," Sandy said of Patrick and his overdoses.
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These devices are hassle-free and easy-to-use, making them ideal in overcoming today's opioid overdoses.
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Brockton, a predominantly white city of about 94,000 south of Boston, averages about three overdoses a day.
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Opioid overdoses are already killing more than 30,000 Americans annually, and the problem could still get worse.
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Still, it's never been definitively linked to any serious ailments — not deadly overdoses, lung disease, or schizophrenia.
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New Hampshire has the second-highest rate of fatal drug overdoses in the nation, behind West Virginia.
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In 2015 alone, 50,000 Americans died from drug overdoses, and the epidemic shows no sign of abating.
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Painkilling pills sold by dealers and laced with fentanyl — a drug with a potency 80 to 100 times greater than morphine — have led to 28 overdoses and six deaths in Sacramento County, California over the past week, including 12 overdoses in two days, according to a report by CNN.
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A Times investigation published this month estimated that more than 59,000 Americans died in 2016 of drug overdoses, in the largest annual jump in such deaths ever recorded in the U.S. One reason is the spread of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that is cheap and potent, leading to overdoses.
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U.S. deaths from drug overdoses hit a record in 2014, increasing 6.5 percent to 47,055, propelled by prescription painkiller and heroin abuse, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.. Drug overdoses are seen as a major contributor to recently rising death rates among middle-aged white Americans.
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More recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reveal that emergency department visits for suspected opioid overdoses — including fatal and non-fatal apparent overdoses — increased by 22019 percent from 2016 to 2017, an ominous sign that rates of drug overdose deaths are continuing to escalate.
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Deaths from heroin overdoses nearly quadrupled from 212 to 230, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.
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The week before my visit in July, the region saw 18 deaths and 180 overdoses related to opioids.
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Last year, more than 226,22016 people died from opioid overdoses in the U.S., the largest recorded toll yet.
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Just over 84 percent of the incidents were drug overdoses and about 23 percent were self-cutting episodes.
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A breakdown of overdose causes was not available, but Burmeister said most of those calls were heroin overdoses.
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Louisville authorities say it's too early to tell if fentanyl-laced heroin caused the overdoses in their region.
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At least 20153 people died of opioid overdoses in Cuyahoga County over the weekend, CNN affiliate WEWS reported.
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New numbers from the CDC reveal that one in four drug overdoses in 2015 was linked to heroin.
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Accidental deaths, including drug overdoses, increased in all 50 states for women and in 48 states for men.
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The new report says the latest available data found that 22.6,22014 people died from opioid overdoses in 123.
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Pill overdoses among women have surged more than 73 percent since 1999, nearly double the rate among men.
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One weekend earlier this month for instance at least 14 people died of opioid overdoses around Cleveland, Ohio.
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An opioid crisis is gripping the US: Over 70,000 people in the country died from overdoses last year.
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Prince was given two doses of Narcan, an antidote used to reverse suspected opioid overdoses, the official said.
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Fentanyl, as mentioned, became the leading cause of US overdoses in 183 by killing more than 20,000 people.
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That goes hand-in-hand with the other reason life expectancy is dropping: a rise in drug overdoses.
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According to the CDC, about 218,000 people died from overdoses related to prescription opioids from 1999 to 2017.
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While there are signs drug overdoses are declining somewhat, they still killed more than 70,000 people in 2017.
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The researchers say the shockingly steep rise points to deep problems in the economy spurring fatal drug overdoses.
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That year, another 28,000 people died due to overdoses involving synthetic opioids, like fentanyl, according to the CDC.
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Still, of the 26,000 fatal opioid overdoses in 2013, the vast majority came from heroin and prescription painkillers.
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Carfentanil, an even more potent relative of fentanyl, has been linked to mass outbreaks of deadly overdoses nationwide.
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In 22014, drug overdoses were linked to more deaths than any other year on record: more than 21,113.
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The drug naloxone, which can reverse prescription opioid and heroin overdoses, may not be effective against potent synthetics.
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In 2016, city emergency services made about 532 runs to treat reported opioid overdoses, the Journal-News found.
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The potency makes overdosing very easy, and fentanyl overdoses are harder to treat than those of other opioids.
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The result: Millions of Americans got hooked on the drugs, and tens of thousands have died from overdoses.
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Another factor is ethnicity: Older white men are most likely to kill themselves with overdoses of pain pills.
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So I mean this is uh an argument for... once somebody overdoses you need to find out why.
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It's now the leading cause of fatal overdoses nationwide, killing about two people a day in Baltimore alone.
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Preliminary data from the CDC suggests that around 50,000 people will have died this year from opioid overdoses.
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Opioid overdoses increased 30 percent between July 2016 and September 2017 in 45 states, according to the CDC.
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But more significant was an increase in suicides and overdoses, which added 2.4 more deaths per 100,000 Americans.
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When a fellow inpatient at your rehab goes out and overdoses, you're prone to sadness but not surprise.
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Just over 210 percent of the incidents were drug overdoses and about 2000 percent were self-cutting episodes.
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Dr. Joan Papp is on the front lines -- not only treating overdoses, but also trying to prevent them.
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Regardless, the number of people dying from opioid overdoses, specifically ones involving synthetic opioids like fentanyl, is alarming.
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In this case, however, the antibodies blocking the drug from getting to the brain also prevent lethal overdoses.
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They also arrested two alleged traffickers, amid a spike in opioid overdoses and deaths in the United States.
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A potent opioid called carfentanil has led to hundreds of overdoses in Ohio, overwhelming police and first responders.
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Sammarco said that the area has been so devastated by overdoses, their toxicology lab is 290 cases behind.
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Hamilton County usually sees about 25 overdoses in an average week, so these numbers represent a huge increase.
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It is not clear whether the Indiana and Ohio overdoses are connected, but officials are investigating the possibility.
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California recorded 746 fatal overdoses from fentanyl in 2017 versus 237 in 2016, the San Francisco Chronicle reported .
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In developed countries, OST is recognized to counter overdoses, criminal behavior and public health risks such as HIV.
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In the Midwest, overdoses increased 109 percent in Wisconsin, 66 percent in Illinois, and 35 percent in Indiana.
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In recent years, use of heroin, an opioid, has exploded, keeping the numbers of deaths from overdoses high.
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According to Ruhm's model, many states might be dramatically underestimating how many people die of opioid-related overdoses.
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Today, drug overdoses kill more people than car accidents annually with opioids contributing to over 60% of them.
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Ohio heroin epidemic One hundred and twelve people have died of heroin overdoses in Akron this year alone.
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Narcan — an emergency medicine used to reverse the effects of some drug overdoses — was reportedly administered to Lovato .
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One of the main recommendations of the panel is to declare opioid addiction and overdoses a national emergency.
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That's almost the equivalent of 0.1 percent of the city's population dying from drug overdoses in one year.
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More than 47,000 people died from prescription and illegal opioids overdoses last year, according to the CDC report.
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Fentanyl and carfentanyl are synthetic opioids that have been linked to overdoses across the nation in recent years.
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According to local health officials in Huntington, the city deals with 18 to 20 overdoses every single week.
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Dying from unintentional injuries — like car crashes or drug overdoses — is now the third-leading cause of death.
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My state of Massachusetts, where opioid overdoses are still increasing, is in the lowest quintile of opioid prescribing.
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One in ten people treated in the ICU after overdoses needed mechanical ventilation machines to help them breathe.
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And it turns out there are now big differences between age groups when it comes to opioid overdoses.
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If such deaths are counted as accidental overdoses, however, access to those same medications can get blamed incorrectly.
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Company leaders worried mainly that attempts to stem overdoses might deprive pain patients of access to the drug.
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Nearly 19903,21990 people died from 217 to 230 as a result of opioids overdoses, according to the Post.
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In 22019 alone, there were over 80,000 emergency room visits and over 60,000 hospitalizations due to opioid overdoses.
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Deaths from opioid drug overdoses hit an all-time record in the U.S. last year, rising 14 percent.
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Opioid overdoses usually kill people by inhibiting respiration: breathing slows and starts to sound labored, then stops altogether.
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More than 85033,400 Missouri residents died between 2012 and 2016 due to opioid-involved overdoses, the report says.
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In 2016, 42,000 people died from opioid overdoses, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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New York City's health department said overdoses involving the synthetic drug K2, also known as Spice, have skyrocketed.
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Between 1999 and 2017, more than 218,000 people in the US died from overdoses related to prescription opioids.
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Between 2000 and 2015, the number of fatal drug overdoses tripled, to 52,400 such deaths in 2015 alone.
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The CDC has declared the problem an epidemic, reporting that drug overdoses have doubled between 6900 and 2628.
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All of the overdoses happened on Thursday, and officials here declared a public health emergency the next day.
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Both Walgreens and CVS began stocking naloxone, an antidote for opioid overdoses, in the last couple of years.
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In 2016, 59,85033 to 65,000 Americans died of opioid overdoses, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
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Overdoses among women are also increasing and more and more women are being arrested for drug-related crimes.
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By 2001, it was already clear that addiction and overdoses related to the painkiller were on the rise.
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Staff say a rise in additives supplementing or replacing heroin altogether is a major cause of the overdoses.
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