Forty-seven thousand people died from overdoses in 2014, mainly as a result of heroin and other opioids.
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During the last 15 years the rate of abuse among prescription opioids has also raised, just as it was the case with illicit opioids like heroin.
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The CDC singled out 14 states with particularly sharp increases in drug overdose deaths. 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). “In 2014, there were approximately one and a half times more drug overdose deaths in the United States than deaths from motor vehicle crashes”. The worst thing to note is that opioids are involved in 61% of all drug overdose deaths, which is highly prescribed by doctors. In 2014 alone, drug overdoses killed more than 47,000 people-a 7% increase from the previous year-and the most of any year on the CDC’s record.
CDC Director, Dr. Tom Frieden, said: “The opioid epidemic is devastating American families and communities”.
The CDC then outlined some recommendations in how to reduce and eventually curb overdose death.
Death due to drug overdose is very high in five states, namely, Ohio, Kentucky, New Mexico, West Virginia, and New Hampshire.
“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. More people are also dying from fentanyl, an opioid that is sold as a heroin.
Heroin, cocaine, painkillers, and sedatives are the most common drug used in an overdose death. Providing health care professionals with additional tools and information-including safer guidelines for prescribing these drugs-can help them make more informed prescribing decisions.
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The Butler County coroner also told the Associated Press that overdoses weren’t uncommon.
