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Kentucky has been one of the most hard-hit states in the fentanyl crisis. [27] In 2021, fentanyl accounted for 70% of the 2,250 overdose deaths in Kentucky. [27] The state passed 2,000 overdoes deaths again in 2022, reaching that figure in August, with 73% of the deaths involving fentanyl. [27]
During the first two waves of the opioid epidemic, heroin use increased among non-Hispanic Whites but decreased among non-White groups; additionally during this time, the vulnerability for overdose shifted to younger age groups. [22] In 2014, it was estimated that more than half a million Americans had an addiction to heroin. [103]
Heroin and methadone hospitalisations were much lower, increasing from 2.6 to 6.9 per 100,000, with all of the increase due to methadone use rather than heroin. Opioid-related deaths, including drugs of abuse, rose from 1.3 to 3.2 per 1,000,000 population (+146%, 2000–2015).
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -Kroger has agreed to pay $110 million to resolve a lawsuit by the state of Kentucky alleging the supermarket chain's pharmacies helped fuel a deadly opioid epidemic by ...
The state with the most heroin overdoses is developing a new form of the war on drugs in hopes of saving and restoring more lives. New war on drugs takes aim at America's heroin epidemic Skip to ...
Since the heroin epidemic first hit, the 110 beds at the publicly-funded Grateful Life Center have become some of the most coveted real estate in Northern Kentucky. The facility for men, part of the Recovery Kentucky network, is located in Erlanger, just down the road from the Kenton County jail.
The WHO estimates that 70% of deaths due to drug use are in relation to opioids, with 30% being due to overdose. [1] It is believed that the opioid epidemic has partly been caused due to assurances that prescription opioids were safe, by the pharmaceutical industry in the 1990s. [15]
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