Pennsylvania is among a number of states that’s been plagued by a recent a surge in drug overdose deaths, according to a new report from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
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The number represented a seven-per-cent increase on the previous year and is the highest level since 1970. The rate of deaths involving semi-synthetic opioids increased with 9 percent (813 more deaths) from 2013 to 2014.
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The CDC has focused its efforts on reducing overdose deaths by attempting to limit overdoses from legally obtained drugs, like painkillers.
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Since 2000, opioid drug overdose deaths rose 200%. “[It’s] devastating American families and communities”. “There is a need for continued action to prevent opioid abuse, dependence and death improve treatment capacity for opioid use disorders and reduce the supply of illicit opioids, particularly heroin and illicit fentanyl”.
West Virginina’s overdose rate was 35.5 per cent per 100,000, while the national average was about 15 per cent per 100,000. In October, Gov. Snyder, under the state’s newly formed Michigan Prescription Drug and Opioid Abuse Task Force, released more than two dozen recommendations to tackle state’s drug abuse ‘crisis.
“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; however, illicitly manufactured fentanyl can not be distinguished from prescription fentanyl in death certificate data”, the report reads. OH saw an increase of 18.3 percent in its rate from 2013 to 2014, the eighth-highest increase nationwide.
The CDC has also released guidelines for preventing the deaths resulted from opioids overdose.
According to the CDC, heroin-related deaths are on the rise.
Overdose deaths are up in both men and women, in non-Hispanic whites and blacks, and in adults of almost all ages, the report said. Butler County officials have also seen a switch from the more tightly regulated prescription painkillers to the cheaper, more accessible heroin, the report said.
Drug overdoses have killed nearly half a million people in the United States from 2000 to 2014, and the rate of opioid overdoses has tripled since 2000.
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Because it is the most populous state, California led the way with the most overdose deaths over all with 4,500, with OH coming in second at 2,700. They are urging family doctors to be careful about who they give painkiller prescriptions to for chronic pain.
