Tag: CDC
Opioid addiction: Saving a son or daughter from a fatal overdose
Parenting becomes more challenging when a son or daughter becomes addicted to drugs, and with opioid addiction reaching epidemic consequences, preventing a fatal overdose...
Injecting drugs increases Hep C risk for more women than men
Recent research looked into the risk of contracting Hepatitis C between men and women who inject drugs and discovered that women are more vulnerable...
Opioid crisis cuts down life expectancy in the US by 2.5...
The ongoing opioid crisis is negatively affecting the average life expectancy of Americans, a new federal report shows.
The report, authored by researchers from the...
Drug overdoses killed more Americans in 2016 than Vietnam War
The Vietnam War lasted nearly 20 years and tallied 58,220 deaths. In stark contrast, about 64,070 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2016 alone,...
Teen overdose deaths spike at alarming rate, new data
The rate of teenage drug overdose deaths spiked 19 percent from 2014 to 2015 in the U.S., a new report by the Centers for...
Number of drug overdose deaths keeps climbing
Drug overdose fatalities continue to escalate in the U.S., according to a new government data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The...
Opioid prescriptions three times higher in 2015 than in 1999, CDC...
Although opioid prescriptions declined year to year from 2010 to 2015 nationwide, their accessibility either continued steady or increased in more than half of...
Opioid addiction rates up nearly 500 percent in 7 years
The increase of Americans diagnosed with opioid addiction continues to escalate dramatically, but a very low number of them receive drug rehab, a new...
Odds of prescription opioid addiction rises sharply after 5 days of...
Patients who use prescription opioids for more than three days are more likely to become long-term users, with a sharp increase in probability occurring...
Pennsylvania awarded significant grants to aid in addiction recovery and prevention
The Health and Human Services Administration has announced that it will provide $485 million in grants to all 50 states to help combat the...
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