Drug overdose deaths reached record highs in 2014, fueled largely by the abuse of narcotic painkillers and heroin, us health officials reported Friday.
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According to the report, rates of drug overdose deaths were highest in five states: West Virginia, New Mexico, New Hampshire, Kentucky and Ohio.
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Drug overdoses have killed nearly half a million people in the United States from 2000 to 2014, and the rate of opioid overdoses has tripled since 2000. Since 2000, the rate of deaths from drug overdoses has increased 137%, including a 200% increase in the rate of overdose deaths involving opioids (opioid pain relievers and heroin).
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The spike in deaths has coincided with a rapid rise in the abuse of opioid-based prescription painkillers such as oxycontin and hydrocodone.
According to study published by CDC on December 18 in their Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report it was reported an increase with 14 percent in the deaths related to drug overdose in the a year ago.
“These findings indicate that the opioid overdose epidemic is worsening”.
“The increasing number of deaths from opioid overdose is alarming”, CDC director Thomas Frieden said in the statement.
Heroin deaths also went up by 26% since 2013 with more than 10,000 people dead by 2014. Providing health care professionals with additional tools and information-including safer guidelines for prescribing these drugs-can help them make more informed prescribing decisions. Other risk factors are given by its high availability, its low price and its high purity. The deaths were mostly due to opiod pain relivers and heroin, according to the report.
More men and women of almost all ages, as well whites and blacks, are dying from drug overdoses, the researchers found. “The opioid outbreak is devastating American families and communities”. There was an 80 percent increase in such deaths (5,500 total). But the pushback has been hard from patients, doctors and the drug industry, as well as groups such as the U.S. Pain Foundation and the American Academy of Pain Management.
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Both the CDC and ONDCP called for better prevention efforts and greater access to treatment for patients with addiction, particularly medication-assisted therapy, as well as stepped-up law enforcement efforts to curb use.
