Opioid Overdoses in Children and Adolescents

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Drug Overdose Deaths Among Persons Aged 10–19 Years - CDC

Approximately 90% of overdose deaths involved opioids, and 83.9% involved IMFs; however, only 35% of decedents had documented opioid use history ...

Opioids are killing more children and... (CNN News) - NCBI

Over 18 years, nearly 9000 children and adolescents died from opioid poisonings, and the mortality rate increased nearly 3-fold. These findings suggest that the ...

Opioid Overdoses in Children and Adolescents

By Iris Smith, Ph.D. Opioids are becoming the most common cause of fatal poisonings in young children. Between 2019 and 2021 drug overdose deaths in ...

Dozens of US adolescents are dying from drug overdoses every month

Fentanyl increasingly involved in US adolescent deaths from drug overdoses · Opioids are behind the vast majority of adolescent overdose deaths ...

Opioid-Related Deaths, Ages 1 to 17

National Center Quick-Look Opioid-Related Deaths in Children Ages 1 to 17 Collect: The National Center for Fatality Review and Prevention collects ...

Nonfatal Opioid Overdoses in Youth Spiked During Pandemic

Drug overdose mortality has risen faster among adolescents than the general population in recent years, largely due to fentanyl.

Opioid intoxication in children and adolescents - UpToDate

INTRODUCTION. The epidemiology, pharmacology, clinical manifestations, and management of opioid toxicity in children and adolescents are ...

About 22 high school age adolescents died each week from ...

An average of 22 adolescents 14 to 18 years of age died in the U.S. each week in 2022 from drug overdoses, raising the death rate for this ...

US National Trends in Pediatric Deaths From Prescription and Illicit ...

Conclusions and Relevance Over 18 years, nearly 9000 children and adolescents died from opioid poisonings, and the mortality rate increased ...

The Opioid Epidemic's Toll on Children

While there have been some dramatic and heart-wrenching media accounts of the struggles experienced by children of parents with opioid addiction—from foster ...

Anticipatory Guidance to Prevent Adolescent Overdoses | Pediatrics

Drug overdoses and poisonings are now the third leading cause of death among American children and adolescents younger than age 19 years.1 ...

Teens, Drugs, and Overdose: Contrasting Pre-Pandemic and ... - KFF

This brief analyzes the latest CDC data on adolescent overdose deaths, finding that from 2022 to 2023, there was a small reduction in ...

Invest in Youth Prevention - Opioid Principles

Any comprehensive effort to reduce the toll of substance use generally—and opioids specifically—must invest in youth primary prevention programs. Overdoses ...

Acute opioid overdose in pediatric patients - PMC - PubMed Central

From 2019 to 2021, drug overdose deaths in children aged 10–19 rose by 109%, with opioids being a common factor. , , , , , , , , , Alarmingly, ...

Trends in Drug Overdose Deaths Among US Adolescents, January ...

Adolescent drug use rates remained generally stable between 2010 and 2020, with 30.2% and 30.4%, respectively, of 10th-graders reporting any ...

Responding to the Youth Fentanyl Crisis: Practical Guidance for ...

In 2021, fentanyl was identified in 77.1% of overdose deaths among US adolescents, a 23.5-fold increase from 2010, compared to 13.3% for ...

The Overdose Crisis among U.S. Adolescents

Drug-overdose deaths among adolescents have increased in recent years. Steps can be taken to equip adolescents with the knowledge and tools ...

What to Know About Fentanyl & Using Naloxone for Opioid Overdose

An overdose crisis is affecting children, adolescents and adults across the United States. Most drug overdoses in young people are caused by ...

Unintentional Poisoning Deaths in U.S. Infants, Children, and ...

Note: Non-drug poisoning includes alcohol, organic solvent, other gas, vapor, and other/unspecified chemical. Page 2. 2. Unintentional Poisoning Death Rates ...