Updates
New NC Statewide Overdose Surveillance Reports for October 2024
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...
New Data Shows Overdose Deaths are Rising Among Black and Indigenous Americans
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...
Eliminate Systemic Inequities for Black Mothers With SUD
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...
Updated NC Statewide Overdose Surveillance Reports for September
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...
New Study: Fatal Opioid Overdoses Lower U.S. Life Expectancy by Nearly a Year
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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