According to the report’s findings, nearly 50,000 Americans died in 2014 due to drug overdoses, which is not only more people than were killed in road traffic accidents, but is also more than twice the number recorded in the year 2000.
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“The sharp increase in deaths involving synthetic opioids, other than methadone, in 2014 coincided with law enforcement reports of increased availability of illicitly manufactured fentanyl, a synthetic opioid”, the report stated. The agency is trying to produce new guidelines that would encourage doctors to prescribe potentially addictive painkillers only as a last resort. Based on amounts the CDC released Friday in its “Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report”, 61 percent of the deaths involved opioids, including prescribed pain relievers, like oxycodone and hydrocodone, and diamorphine.
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Heroin overdoses in particular have climbed dramatically-more than tripling in the past four years.
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West Virginia, New Mexico, Kentucky, New Hampshire and OH were the states with the highest overdose death rates, the report noted.
Synder reported that the impact of prescription drug and opioid abuse has crossed all demographic, geographic and political lines and has been felt in every community across MI.
More than that, people addicted to opioids should have access to treatment, including access to naloxone, a drug that can reverse the symptoms in case of an opioid overdose.
CDC Director Tom Frieden in the report pointed to an “alarming” surge in overdose deaths from 2013-a 14% increase was seen. The new report, however, suggested that heroin-related death had something to do with the drug’s accessibility. Before, the growing trend for overdose death was related to misuse and overuse of opioid. People with the highest risk of using heroin are those who became dependent or who abused prescription opioids during the past year. However, at high doses, it can also slow breathing.
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Since 2000, opioid drug overdose deaths rose 200%. Almost half a million lives have been lost to opioid drug overdoses since then.
