Fentanyl Drug Overdose Deaths Rising Most Sharply Among African Americans – The Washington Post – March 21, 2019
The synthetic opioid fentanyl has been driving up the rate of fatal drug overdoses across racial and social lines in the United States, with the sharpest increase among African Americans, according to new analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Read More.
Opioid Crisis: FDA’s Own Staff Demand Agency Halt Approval of New Painkillers – The Guardian – March 21, 2019
Top specialists say agency’s ‘dangerously deficient oversight’ is continuing to fuel an epidemic that claims 150 lives a day. Read More.
Talking Opioid Crisis Trends with UMN – University of Minnesota – March 21, 2019
The State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health recently released a report on the evolving opioid crisis across the United States. Since 2010, rapid increases in deaths from illicit opioids have outpaced deaths from natural and semi-synthetic opioids. Read More.
Opioid Overdose Deaths 2017
Nonfatal Overdose Hospital Treated 2017
Prescribing Practices Opioid Prescriptions 2017
Hospitalization Rate for Opioid Use Disorder
Find additional statewide data, analyses, resources and prevention practices on the Minnesota Department of Health Opioid Dashboard
For the first time in history, you are more likely to die from an opioid overdose than a car accident ( @nscsafety). We can all be a part of the solution, because in the end, it’s about all of us.
While Minnesota ranks 11th lowest in terms of opioid overdose rate in the U.S., this greatly masks how the opioid crisis affects minority groups in our state. (Minnesota Department of Health). In fact, Minnesota’s has some of the worst race rate disparities in drug overdose...
In 2017, 422 Minnesotans died from opioids, 636 from alcohol and 783 by suicide.
Deaths from suicide and opioid overdoses reached record highs in Minnesota in 2017, according to new state data. A total of 783 residents died by suicide, a 5 percent increase from 2016. Suicides h…
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Deaths from suicide and opioid overdoses reached record highs in Minnesota in 2017, according to new state data...There were 422 deaths from opioid overdoses in 2017, a 12 percent jump from the year before. http://www.knowthedangers.com
Since 1999, the opioid overdose rate among women ages 30 to 64 rose nearly 500 percent – the highest leap of any population group (@CDCgov).
No matter how isolating it may seem, you are not alone in your addiction. And no matter how alone you feel, there are people cheering for you. You deserve recovery 🌻
