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Bookmark or Share- Preventing Opioid Overdose | Overdose Prevention | CDCWays to prevent opioid overdose are to improve opioid prescribing, reduce exposure to opioids, prevent illegal opioid use and prescription opioid misuse, and treat opioid use disorder. There are strategies that can help prevent overdose and support the health and well-being of communities.
- How opioid use disorder occurs - Mayo ClinicRapidly delivering all the medicine to your body can cause an accidental overdose. Taking more than your prescribed dose of opioid medicine, or taking a dose more often than prescribed, also increases your risk of opioid use disorder. How long you use prescribed opioids also plays a role.
- Opioid overdose - World Health Organization (WHO)Due to their pharmacological effects, opioids can cause breathing difficulties, and opioid overdose can lead to death. Worldwide, in 2019 about 600 000 deaths were attributable to drug use. Close to 80% of these deaths are related to opioids, with about 25% of those deaths caused by opioid overdose.
- Understanding the Opioid Overdose Epidemic - 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.
- About Prescription Opioids | Overdose Prevention | CDCWe must prevent prescription opioid abuse, addiction, and overdose before they start.
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