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Sen. Charles Schumer says Westchester County's drug overdose deaths increased by 115 percent in 3 years

The decision comes on the heels of a new report from the National Center for Health Statistics, an agency of the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, that shows the rate of estimated drug overdose deaths increased in the third quarter of 2016 and outpaced the rate of drug - related deaths over the same period in 2015.

Not exact matches

«This surge is very troubling and likely foreshadows an increase of importation, abuse, and overdose deaths in the United States,» Anthony Williams, assistant administrator and chief of operations for the US Drug Enforcement Administration, told the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control on Tuesday.

The increased adoption is driven, of course, by the nation's deepening opioid epidemic — a scourge fueled by prescription pain pill abuse and cheap heroin that resulted in 24,200 overdose deaths in 2013, up 315 % from 1999.

Case and Deaton highlight the finding that overall mortality rates for middle - aged white Americans have increased in recent years due to deaths from self - destructive behavior: suicide, drug and alcohol overdose, and disease resulting from long - term alcohol abuse.

The New York Democrat announced his support for the legislation Tuesday in Rochester, where he says there have been increases in crimes, overdoses and deaths from opioids and synthetic counterparts.

Dealers started to add the drug to heroin to increase profits and potency, but the drug requires a much smaller amount to overdose on and officials blamed it for the sharp rise in overdose deaths in the past two years.

State senators are turning to police, doctors, and their constituents for proposed solutions to the increase in deaths from opioid overdoses.

The assemblywoman said she believes the increase in overdose deaths in recent years can be partly attributed to judges sending drug dealers to treatment programs — and back on the streets to deal — instead of jail.

Erie County, NY Department of Health» Increase in Fatal Overdoses Involving Fentanyl; Recent Surge in Deaths Prompts Warning

ERIE COUNTY, NY — The Erie County Medical Examiner's office reports a recent increase over the past month in the number of suspected drug overdose deaths involving the drug fentanyl, either alone or in combination with other drugs such as heroin and cocaine.

The county has seen a significant increase in fatal heroin overdoses since 2010 when there was only one heroin death.

Overdose deaths spike in upstate NY New York has seen a significant increase in drug - related deaths over a recent six year period, officials report.

It won't be a cure - all to the alarming increase in drug overdose deaths, but a suggestion by U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand to create guidelines...

From 2010 through 2015, a report showed deaths by overdosing increased by 71 percent.

Schumer says in Westchester County, drug overdose - related deaths increased by 115 percent between 2010 and 2013.

And since 2014, fentanyl — an opioid that is 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine — has driven the dramatic increase in overdose deaths.

According to the state Health Department, Niagara County tallied 22 deaths from opioid overdoses in 2015 - an increase of one from the previous year - and six more deaths were reported in the first half of 2016, which is the most recent data available.

while drug overdose deaths have on the other hand increased annually.

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.

Non-medical use of these substances and associated harms, including overdose deaths, increased alongside prescription use.

The National Institute of Drug Abuse has found that increasing access to medication assisted treatment decreases opioid use, deaths related to overdoses, crime and the transmission of diseases, Boyle said, though the approach is not being used enough.

That growth has been associated with increasing misuse of these medications, leading to alarming increases in unintentional opioid overdose deaths.

The increase is likely due to rising numbers of overdose deaths from opioids (SN: 6/10/17, p. 22), says Christine Durand, a transplant infectious disease specialist at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

Some of the consequences of increased prescribing of opioids over the last few decades have been increases in the use of heroin; overdose deaths; and cases of HIV, hepatitis C, and other injection - related harms.

The overall death rate was low (1.4 percent) once patients arrived in the ED, which the authors suggest supports increased use of emergency services for overdoses.

«Deaths related to opioid overdose increased by more than 200 percent over the past 15 years, and the epidemic has disproportionately impacted the Medicaid population.»

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.

According to the CDC, drug overdose deaths from synthetic opioids like fentanyl increased by 72 per cent between 2014 and 2015.

Not only did long - acting opioids increase the risk of unintentional overdose deaths, but they were also shown to increase mortality from cardiorespiratory events and other causes.

«We found a 34 percent increase in overdose - related ICU admissions while ICU opioid deaths nearly doubled during that same period,» according to Dr. Lena Novack, Ph.D., a lecturer in BGU's School of Public Health.

«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.

One study published earlier this year found that for every 1 percent increase in unemployment in the U.S., opioid overdose death rates rose by nearly 4 percent.

Nationwide, the number of deaths due to drugs more than doubled between 2002 to 2015, including a six-fold increase in deaths due to overdose of heroin and illicit opiods.

The number of organs donated as a result of overdose death has increased 24-fold since 2000 and transplants with those organs have similar outcomes to transplants with organs donated after trauma or natural death.

Between 2002 and 2013, heroin use increased 63 % and heroin - related overdose deaths nearly quadrupled, according to the latest data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Deaths caused by overdosing on painkillers now surpass murders and fatal car accidents in the US, and over the past five years, heroin deaths have increased by 45 percDeaths caused by overdosing on painkillers now surpass murders and fatal car accidents in the US, and over the past five years, heroin deaths have increased by 45 percdeaths have increased by 45 percent.19

Benzodiazepine users also were at increased risk, with 31 percent of overdose deaths involving a drug like fentanyl in 2016 compared with less than 12 percent in 2010, according to the report.

An increasing number of people of working age (aged 25 - 65) die from accidental deaths from drug misuse or overdose, with accidental prescription drug overdoses rising.

By age 27, 5 of the 158 members of their original cohort had died: 2 by suicide, 1 in a car accident, and 1 from a drug overdose.23 Our longitudinal, population - based study confirms that childhood ADHD is associated with significantly increased risk for early death from suicide.