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Drug overdose deaths reach all-time high, Michigan’s increase ‘significant’
Historically, CDC has programmatically characterized all opioid pain reliever deaths (natural and semisynthetic opioids, methadone, and other synthetic opioids) as “prescription” opioid overdoses.
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10,574 individuals died from heroin, a 26 percent increase for the year. use in 2014 The CDC report said heroin overdoses. It’s an epidemic that claimed the lives of more than 47,000 Americans. But combined with that steady increase was a jump in heroin overdoses – they tripled from 2010 to 2014. In 2013, more than 8,000 people died from heroin overdoses, but almost double that number died from overdosing on painkillers.
Since 2000, the rate of deaths from drug overdoses in both males and females has increased by 137 per cent and deaths from opioids have increased by 300 per cent from the same year.
That states that saw significantly increased drug overdose deaths in 2014 when compared to 2013.
In addition, deaths from illegally made fentanyl – a potent narcotic added to or sold as heroin – are also increasing, the CDC reports.
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.
Heroin, cocaine, painkillers, and sedatives are the most common drug used in an overdose death.
“Rates of opioid overdose deaths also increased significantly, from 7.9 per 100,000 in 2013 to 9.0 per 100,000 in 2014, a 14% increase”.
Jane Ballantyne, MD, of the University of Washington, agreed that the increase in illicit fentanyl is a contributor, as is the price drop in other illicit opioids such as black-tar heroin from Mexico. The agency this week released draft guidelines for family doctors, encouraging them to be more careful about prescribing opioids for chronic pain and urging the increased use of naloxone, an overdose antidote.
Limit initiation into opioid misuse and addiction. MI ranks 10th nationally in per capita prescription rates of opioid pain relievers and 18th in the nation for all overdose deaths.
The CDC report described the drug overdose deaths as an “emerging threat to public health and safety”. In line with the CDC, prescriptions for all these painkillers have quadrupled since 1999. It’s also the most drug overdoses reported in the United States since 1970.
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“Heroin is bad enough, but when you lace it with fentanyl, it’s like dropping a nuclear bomb on the situation”, Mary Lou Leary, a deputy director in the White House’s office of National Drug Control Policy, told NPR.