“Since 2000, the rate of deaths from drug overdoses has increased 137 percent, including a 200 percent increase in the rate of overdose deaths involving opioids (opioid pain relievers and heroin)”.
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Some 47,000 people died of overdoses previous year, setting a new record, according to a new analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in their Morbidity and Mortality and Weekly Report.
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The report also confirmed that men and women of most ages and individuals of various ethnic backgrounds were affected by the dramatic rise in drug overdose deaths, thought revealed that the worst-affected states of all were West Virginia, New Mexico, New Hampshire, Kentucky and Ohio.
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Fentanyl is used during surgery as an anesthesia and is 80 to 100 times more potent than morphine, or 30 to 50 times more potent than pharmaceutical grade, 100-percent-pure heroin, according to the US Drug Enforcement Administration.
“The impact of prescription drug and opioid abuse is being felt in every community across MI”.
“This report also shows how important it is that law enforcement intensify efforts to reduce the availability of heroin, illegal fentanyl and other illegal opioids”, Frieden added. These departures were also on the upswing for the two genders, non-Hispanic whites and blacks, and adults aged 25 to 65.
The report, released Friday, says the Commonwealth had 2,426 overdose deaths in 2013 and 2,732 in 2014, marking a 12.9 percent increase over that period.
Heroin-related death rates increased 26 percent from 2013-2014, the latest study found. There were 10,574 such deaths past year.
Deaths from prescription painkillers have been increasing for 15 years and there has been a recent surge in heroin-related deaths, tripling in the last four years, the CDC said. In 2013, more than 8,000 people died from heroin overdoses, but almost double that number died from overdosing on painkillers.
Deaths due to opioid overdoses jumped 14 per cent in just one year.
The CDC released the overall tally last week.
“I am told to move and be active, but in order to be active many days, I need the additional help of my opioid medication that my dr. has prescribed”.
Recommendations ranged from working to better track prescriptions, and marking the overdose antidote drug, known as Narcan, more widely available.
Limit initiation into opioid misuse and addiction.
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And as physicians and public health officials have succeeded in persuading doctors to prescribe fewer opioids, those who are seeking them – particularly those already dependent on opioids – may be turning to other, more risky sources, Ballantyne said.
