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May 11, 2022 · Drug overdoses, which long ago surged above the country's peak deaths from AIDS, car crashes and guns, killed about a quarter as many Americans ...
Nov 17, 2021 · More than 100000 Americans died from drug overdoses in the yearlong period ending in April, government researchers said.
Jan 13, 2023 · The first time Reneé Jones overdosed on drugs last year, she was at her daughter's Bronx apartment and had gotten up to get one of her seven ...
Dayton, Ohio, had one of the highest overdose death rates in the nation in 2017. The city made many changes, and fatal overdoses are down more than 50 percent ...
Apr 15, 2021 · The latest numbers surpass even the yearly tolls during the height of the opioid epidemic and mark a reversal of progress against addiction ...
Feb 14, 2022 · He overdosed at age 27 in Vermont, from a mix of alcohol and fentanyl, a synthetic opioid. He had struggled to find effective treatment for his ...
New data shows a surge in overdose deaths involving fentanyl and methamphetamine. Overall, the nation saw a 15 percent increase in deaths from overdoses in 2021 ...
Jul 14, 2021 · As Covid raged, so did the other epidemic in the U.S.: In 2020, the country experienced the largest recorded single-year increase in ...
Feb 8, 2024 · Construction workers are more likely to die of overdose than workers in any other occupation, forcing the industry to rethink its approach ...