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International Overdose Awareness Day 2022 in Barcelona. The IOAD event was initiated in 2001 in Australia by S.J. Finn, then managing a needle and syringe program at the Salvation Army Crisis Centre in St Kilda, Victoria. [5] The coordination of events globally has been run by the Penington Institute since 2012. [citation needed]
Jazz Appreciation Month; Mathematics Awareness Month [13] [14] National Child Abuse Prevention Month [15] [16] National Pet Month (United Kingdom) National Poetry Month; National Poetry Writing Month; National Volunteer Month; Second Chance Month; Sexual Assault Awareness Month [17] [18] [19] Citizen Science Month (United States) [20] [21]
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. The timeline of the opioid epidemic includes selected events related to the origins of Stamford, Connecticut-based Purdue Pharma, the Sackler family, the development and marketing of oxycodone, selected FDA activities related to the abuse ...
Many sources point to fentanyl as the leading cause of teen overdose death. According to a 2022 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association, between 2010 and 2021, the number of teenage deaths caused by black-market fentanyl and related synthetic substances increased more than twentyfold, from 38 to 884. [120]
The total number of deaths last year was a 21% increase over 2022, while fentanyl deaths increased by 8%. Evidence shows the county, state and nation are caught in a wave of polysubstance use that ...
After years of continuously rising opioid overdoses, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that overdose deaths decreased 3% in 2023, the first annual decrease since 2018. A ...
The opioid epidemic, also referred to as the opioid crisis, is the rapid increase in the overuse, misuse/abuse, and overdose deaths attributed either in part or in whole to the class of drugs called opiates/opioids since the 1990s. It includes the significant medical, social, psychological, demographic and economic consequences of the medical ...
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