America's overdose epidemic has been characterized as 4 distinct and interrelated epidemics: prescription opioids, heroin, fentanyl and fentanyl analogues, and ...

Oregon, like the rest of the US, is experiencing an opioid crisis involving misuse, overdoses, and deaths.

In the United States, there were approximately 109,600 drug-overdose-related deaths in the 12-month period ending January 31, 2023, at a rate of 300 deaths per ...

In rural areas, prescription opioids contribute to a larger share of drug overdose deaths than either heroin or synthetic opioids (Figure 3).

The opioid epidemic is one of the worst public health disasters affecting the USA and Canada. Over the past two decades, nearly 600 000 people have died from ...

Drug overdose and opioid misuse is a serious public health crisis in the United States. This epidemic includes the use of heroin, prescription opioids, ...

The opioid crisis in North America has resulted in increasing overdose death rates in both the United States and Canada and contributed to a decline in ...

The opioid epidemic has manifested differently across U.S. geographic regions, with fatal opioid overdose rates ranging from 4 to 42 per 100,000 residents ...

In 2022, nearly 110,000 Americans died from drug overdoses. More than 81,000 of these deaths involved either prescription or illicit opioids and increase of ...

30. nov. 2023 ... Researchers find that stimulant deaths jumped along with those from fentanyl, making the crisis more dire and complicated than ever before.