The U.S. Drug Epidemic

The Impact of Opioids - More Powerful NC

How Have Opioids Affected the United States? · More than 100 people die every day from opioid overdoses. · Overall life expectancy in the U.S. has declined for ...

The opioid crisis in data - USAFacts

Beginning in the 1990s, the opioid crisis unfolded in three distinct waves, moving from legal prescriptions like oxycodone and hydrocodone, to heroin, and ...

Chart: Fentanyl Fuels Surge in U.S. Drug Overdose Deaths | Statista

The opioid epidemic in the U.S.. Over the past 10 years, the United States has seen a dramatic surge in drug overdose deaths, an ...

Opioid Addiction 2016 Facts & Figures

Drug Abuse. Available at http://www.drugabuse.gov/drugs-abuse/opioids. 2 American Society of Addiction Medicine. (2011) ...

Drug companies to pay Baltimore $266 in opioid epidemic lawsuit

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 81,000 people in the United States died from opioid overdose deaths in 2023, about ...

Frontline Against Fentanyl | U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Operation Four Horsemen was a complementary United States Border Patrol (USBP) operation to stop fentanyl between POEs and at checkpoints near the border. As a ...

Why Is Fentanyl Driving Overdose Deaths? > News > Yale Medicine

And now, since 2015 or 2016, the opioid street supply in the U.S. has shifted from primarily heroin and prescription opioids to illicitly ...

US overdose deaths continue downward trend, giving experts hope

The US drug abuse epidemic is killing 300 Americans a day ... Inside the Sackler dynasty and the company, Purdue Pharma, that allegedly fuelled ...

Opioid Epidemic - The New York Times

Federal officials have celebrated a striking drop in drug overdoses across the country. But state-level data shows that Black people are suffering significantly ...

US opioid crisis: How America's 'overdose capital' is helping addicts ...

Huntington in West Virginia is where it all began. A crisis that swept America, causing misery to millions. The Opioid epidemic began when a ...

Opioid epidemic - Wikipedia

The opioid epidemic, also referred to as the opioid crisis, is the rapid increase in the overuse, misuse/abuse, and overdose deaths attributed either in ...

America's fentanyl epidemic, explained in six charts - The Economist

A decade later fentanyl is responsible for 70% of annual overdose deaths. Every 14 months more Americans die from taking the drug than were ...

Fighting Substance Abuse - West Virginia Attorney General

Opioids are the number one cause of death associated with drug overdoses. The drug epidemic in this state knows no socioeconomic or geographic boundaries and ...

Prescription Drug Abuse | United States Department of Justice

Prescription drug abuse is the Nation's fastest-growing drug problem and has been classified as an epidemic by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Top 10 US States with Drug Overdose Deaths [Updated 2024]

Top 10 US States with Drug Overdose Deaths · West Virginia: 90.9 fatal overdoses per 100,000 people · Tennessee: 56.6 fatal overdoses per 100,000 ...

The Opioid Epidemic - United States Postal Inspection Service

Delivering Justice to Opioid dealers. USPIS is committed to stopping fentanyl traffickers with the most advanced technology available. Discover how our ...

Dose of Reality: Opioids in Wisconsin

Opioids are powerful drugs. Prescription pain relievers, fentanyl, and heroin hurt Wisconsin residents every day. More people die of opioid overdoses in ...

Opioid overdose crisis: time for a radical rethink - The Lancet

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 ...

More than 100000 people in the US died of drug overdoses in 2023

More than 1 million people have died of a drug overdose since 2001, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The National ...

Opioid epidemic reaches beyond health impacts to influence politics

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), drug overdose deaths in the United States topped 100,000 in 2022 — with ...