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Opioids were involved in around 80,400 of the around 106,700 deaths in 2021. [7] See map higher up for states with the highest overdose death rates. Three waves of opioid overdose deaths.
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 ...
The statewide opioid death rate was 27 deaths per 100,000 population in 2022, the most recent state data show. The highest per capita death rates were in Ulster (63) and Sullivan (62).
The county’s snapshot indicates Native Americans with the highest opioid overdose death rate: 68.8 per 100,000. Black people are next at 54 per 100,000, whites at 35.4 per 100,000 and Asians at ...
3 waves of opioid overdose deaths. US timeline. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention describe the U.S. opioid epidemic as having arrived in three waves. [8] However, recent research indicates that since 2016, the United States has been experiencing the fourth wave of the opioid epidemic.
Monroe had the sixth-highest opioid death rate among New York counties in 2022, at 39 deaths per 100,000 population, the most recent state data show. The highest per capita death rates were in ...
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 ...
At 24.6 deaths per 1,000 people, Ohio has the 5th highest rate of drug overdose deaths in the United States. The Governor's Cabinet Opiate Action Team (GCOAT) was created in 2011 by Governor John Kasich and is "one of the nation's most aggressive and comprehensive approaches to address opioid use disorder and overdose deaths, including a strong ...