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Bookmark or Share- Drop in U.S. overdose deaths accelerates as fentanyl crisis eases - NPRA new CDC report shows at least 16,000 lives were saved over a 12-month period. Experts say the U.S. is experiencing the biggest drop in fatal overdoses seen since the opioid crisis began in the 90s.
- Understanding the Opioid Overdose Epidemic | Overdose Prevention | CDCNearly 108,000 people died from drug overdose in 2022 and approximately 82,000 of those deaths involved opioids (about 76%). The number of people who died from an opioid overdose in 2022 was 10 times the number in 1999; however, opioid overdose death rates were relatively stable from 2021 to 2022.
- Understanding the opioid overdose epidemic - CDC StacksNearly 75% of the 91,799 drug overdose deaths in 2020 involved an opioid. From 2019 to 2020, there were significant changes in opioid-involved death rates: • Opioid-involved death rates increased by 38%. • Prescription opioid-involved death rates increased by 17%. • Heroin-involved death rates decreased by 7%.
- What led to the opioid crisis—and how to fix itFebruary 9, 2022 – Without urgent intervention, 1.2 million people in the U.S. and Canada will die from opioid overdoses by the end of the decade, in addition to the more than 600,000 who have died since 1999, according to a February 2 report from the Stanford-Lancet Commission on the North American Opioid Crisis. In this Big 3 Q&A, Howard Koh, professor of the practice of public health ...
- What is the Opioid Epidemic? A public health explainerThe opioid epidemic is an ongoing public health crisis that has affected millions of people in the United States over the past two decades. Officially declared a Public Health Emergency by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in 2017, the epidemic has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans.
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