Butler County officials have also seen a switch from the more tightly regulated prescription painkillers to the cheaper, more accessible heroin, the report said.
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“The rate of drug overdose deaths increased significantly for both sexes, persons aged 25-44 years and above 55 years, non-Hispanic whites and non-Hispanic blacks, and in the Northeastern, Midwestern, and Southern regions of the United States”, the report continued. Half a million people in the United States have died from drug overdoses since 2000, according to the CDC.
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Most of the deaths related to prescription opioids are in the account of semi-synthetic opioids like oxycodone and hydrocodone.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the overall tally last week.
“The impact of prescription drug and opioid abuse is being felt in every community across MI”.
In a newly released report, the federal public health agency said that “more persons died from drug overdoses in the United States in 2014 than during any previous year on record”. “To curb these trends and save lives, we must help prevent addiction and provide support and treatment to those who suffer from opioid use disorders”, he added. In West Virginia, the overdose rate was 35.5 per 100,000.
The states which recorded a surge in drug overdose deaths included, Georgial, Maine, Illinois, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Alabama, Maryland, Indiana, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Ohio.
The health agency has also provided guidelines for general practitioners that urge them to be more cautious about the medications they prescribe for chronic pain.
In addition, deaths from overdoses of heroin increased 26 percent, accounting for more than 10,500 deaths in 2014.
The use of synthetic opioids, like illicitly manufactured fentanyl, coincided with reports from law enforcement warning of increased availability of the drug. This is linked to deaths related to over the counter medication, which increased 14 percent.
It is also necessary that opioid addiction sufferers would have easy access to evidence-based treatments, including making naloxone more available to them.
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“Efforts to improve safer prescribing of prescription opioids must be intensified”, the CDC report stated.
