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The District began a program of free distribution of the nasal spray naloxone in 2018 with 17 locations dispensing the non-injection overdose-reversing drug. In 2020, due to a 50% increase in opioid overdose deaths, the District doubled the distribution to 35 locations in every ward throughout the city.
An opioid overdose is toxicity due to excessive consumption of opioids, such as morphine, codeine, heroin, fentanyl, tramadol, and methadone. [ 3 ] [ 5 ] This preventable pathology can be fatal if it leads to respiratory depression , a lethal condition that can cause hypoxia from slow and shallow breathing. [ 3 ]
The CDC reported recently that heroin-related overdose deaths jumped 39 percent nationwide between 2012 and 2013, surging to 8,257. In the past decade, Arizona’s heroin deaths rose by more than 90 percent. New York City had 420 heroin overdose deaths in 2013 — the most in a decade.
Heroin Accidental Overdose due to diminished tolerance after drugs treatment. [251] [252] Martha Gellhorn: 1908 1998 89 Writer Cyanide poisoning: Suicide [253] Lowell George: 1945 1979 34 Musician Unspecified Accidental [254] [255] Talitha Getty: 1940 1971 30 Actress Heroin Unknown [256] Harold Gimblett: 1914 1978 63 Cricketer Unspecified ...
In 2017 alone, there were 70,237 recorded drug overdose deaths; of those deaths, 47,600 involved an opioid. [9] [10] A report from December 2017 estimated that 130 people die every day in the United States due to opioid-related drug overdose. [11] The great majority of Americans who use prescription opioids do not believe that they are misusing ...
Opioid overdose deaths have grown much faster than other overdose deaths. In 2020 in Benton and Franklin counties the rate was 15.3 people per 100,000, or about 46 people that year. It’s close ...
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The age-adjusted drug poisoning death rate involving heroin doubled from 0.7 to 1.4 deaths per 100,000 people between 1999 and 2011 and then continued to increase to 4.1 in 2015. [192] The third wave of overdose deaths began in 2013, related to synthetic opioids, particularly illicitly produced fentanyl. [190]