Pennsylvania is among a number of states that’s been plagued by a recent a surge in drug overdose deaths, according to a new report from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Heroin killed 10,574 persons during 2015, an increase with 26 percent from 2013.
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While the USA as a whole is reporting an overall 14 percent increase in opioid overdose deaths, including both opioid pain relievers and heroin, no states saw the increases from 2013 to 2014 like New Hampshire.
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According to the CDC, the most commonly prescribed opioid pain relievers, those classified as natural or semi-synthetic opioids such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, continue to be involved in more overdose deaths than any other opioid type. “The opioid outbreak is devastating American families and communities”.
Over the past year, obituaries spotlighting victims of drug addiction have put faces to these statistics.
“Buck”, who is 23 and addicted to heroin, shoots up Suboxone, a maintenance drug for opioid dependence that is also highly addictive on February 6, 2014, in St. Johnsbury, Vermont.
West Virginia, New Mexico, Kentucky, New Hampshire and OH were the states with the highest overdose death rates, the report noted.
NBC reports that the CDC earlier in December drafted a proposal for stricter guidelines that suggest every other possible treatment option for pain management be explored before prescriptions are written for painkillers such as oxycontin or codeine.
The United States is experiencing an epidemic of drug overdose (poisoning) deaths.
“One in 100 people will die in this state of an opioid overdose”.
The biggest increase in deaths was from from synthetic opioids, which went up 80%. The rate of opioid overdose deaths has tripled since 2000. People with the highest risk of using heroin are those who became dependent or who abused prescription opioids during the past year.
The Butler County coroner also told the Associated Press that overdoses weren’t uncommon.
“These findings indicate that the opioid overdose epidemic is worsening”. From 2000 to 2014 almost half a million persons in the United States have died from drug overdoses.
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“The rising amount of departures from opioid overdose is alarming”, CDC director Thomas Frieden said in the statement.
