Sentences with phrase «opioid deaths among»

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A willingness at least to talk about opioid deaths (among other taboo subjects) surely helped Donald Trump win last November's election.

Despite the upbeat crime data, Nassau has seen a spike in MS - 13 violence and opioid overdose deaths, among the many challenges facing the police commissioner.

It was not long before data showed dramatic increases in the use prescription opioid medicines by teenagers, Volkow said, and set off alarm bells that «we had a problem with prescription medicines,» a 2003 discovery that was later underscored by a steep increase in overdose deaths among all users.

«The U.S. has experienced a 400 percent increase in overdoses due to prescription opioid pain relievers among women of reproductive age between 1999 and 2010, and those deaths are concentrated among white women in rural areas, and those with lower socioeconomic status,» said Jarlenski.

Official tallies won't be released until next year, but a number of states — among them Missouri, Mississippi, Connecticut and Maryland — have already reported higher opioid - related death rates for 2017 than for 2016.

Opponents of medical marijuana argue that such laws increase recreational marijuana use among adolescents, while advocates contend that medical marijuana helps to address the US opioid crisis by reducing overdose deaths.

«The noteworthy increase in the annual rate of heroin abuse or dependence among non-Hispanic Whites parallels the significant increase in nonmedical opioid use during the last decade and the growing number of heroin overdose deaths described for this race and ethnic group in recent years,» said Martins.

Since the 1990s, death rates among this demographic — specifically middle - aged white Americans without college degrees — have been on the rise thanks to opioid addiction, alcohol abuse and suicide.