by Alex Watkins ONeill | Dec 24, 2024 | Content
The 2023 National Substance Use and Mental Health Services Survey report is based on data collected from 20,681 treatment facilities across the U.S., including 14,620 facilities for substance use, 9,856 for mental health and 3,795 offering both types of treatment....
by Alex Watkins ONeill | Dec 17, 2024 | Content
The Injury and Violence Prevention Branch of the Division of Public Health (IVPB) recently posted an update of suspected overdose deaths, fentanyl-positive deaths, and provisional data on Emergency Department (ED) visits for overdose reports. While the year-to-date...
by Alex Watkins ONeill | Dec 10, 2024 | Content
The recent decline in overdose deaths hides a tremendous disparity by race: Deaths have fallen only among white people while continuing to rise among people of color, according to a new Stateline analysis of federal data. Health experts in nonwhite communities say...
by Alex Watkins ONeill | Dec 3, 2024 | Content
Between 2010 and 2017, the U.S. saw a 131% increase in maternal opioid use disorder at delivery. There also was an 83% rise in cases of neonatal abstinence syndrome due to prenatal opioid exposure. Additionally, between 2016 and 2020, there was a 3.6% increase in...
by Alex Watkins ONeill | Nov 12, 2024 | Content
The Injury and Violence Prevention Branch of the Division of Public Health (IVPB) recently posted an update of suspected overdose deaths, fentanyl-positive deaths, and provisional data on Emergency Department (ED) visits for overdose reports. While the year-to-date...
by Alex Watkins ONeill | Nov 12, 2024 | Content
In the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic, opioid-related deaths cut the nation’s average life expectancy at birth by eight months, according to new research appearing in The Lancet Regional Health–Americas. The findings also suggest that young minorities bore the...
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