'Overdose epidemic': Bipartisan senators target fentanyl classification as lapse approaches
Senators came together to reintroduce a bipartisan bill that would permanently classify fentanyl as a Schedule I controlled ...
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Opioid overdose deaths linked to lack of upward income mobility, Boston College researchers find
The unprecedented increase in drug overdose deaths in the United States, long believed to be driven by access to legal and ...
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Drug Overdose Deaths in Big Cities
Figure 1: Drug overdose death rate in BCHC cities, 2020 (per 100,000 population, age-adjusted). In 2020, total drug overdose deaths ranged from 14 to 120 deaths per 100,000 population. The average ...
Overdose deaths in Minnesota dipped last year, according to state health department
Most of that reduction in overdose deaths was outside the Twin Cities metro counties, but the metro counties saw a 1% ...
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An exception of note: More older people, age 50 and up, are appearing in county overdose statistics
Although total overdose deaths in Bartholomew County have ... For people younger than 45, fentanyl “was far above the No. 1” substance, followed by methamphetamine and “there wasn’t ...