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Statistics


According to research that was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, 59 percent of all U.S. adults are currently on at least one prescription drug, and 15 percent of all U.S. adults are on at least five prescription drugs.  And the numbers are far worse for older Americans.  The following statistics come from one of my previous articles
According to the CDC, approximately 9 out of every 10Americans that are at least 60 years old say that they have taken at least one prescription drug within the last month.
There is an unintentional drug overdose death in the United States every 19 minutes.
In the United States today, prescription painkillers kill more Americans than heroin and cocaine combined.
According to the CDC, approximately three quarters of a million people a year are rushed to emergency rooms in the United States because of adverse reactions to pharmaceutical drugs.
The percentage of women taking antidepressants in Americais higher than in any other country in the world.
Children in the United States are three times more likely to be prescribed antidepressants as children in Europe are.
A shocking Government Accountability Office report discovered thatapproximately one-third of all foster children in the United States are on at least one psychiatric drug.
A survey conducted for the National Institute on Drug Abuse found that more than15 percent of all U.S. high school seniors abuse prescription drugs.

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CDC Statistics on Opioid Overdose Deaths

Increases in Drug and Opioid Overdose Deaths — United ...

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Summary. What is already known on this topic? The rate for drug overdose deaths has increased approximately 140% since 2000, driven largely by opioid ...

Drug-poisoning Deaths Involving Opioid Analgesics: United ...

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On This Page. Key findings; Although the age-adjusted opioid-analgesic poisoning death rate nearly quadrupled from 1999 through 2011, the rate of ...

CDC Publications - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Increases in Drug and Opioid Overdose Deaths — United States, 2000–2014. MMWR 2015; 64;1-5. Related page: ...

Prescription Drug Overdose Data | Prescription Drug ...

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Deaths from Prescription Opioid Overdose Every day in the United States, 44 people die as a result of prescription opioid overdose. 1. Among those who ...

Opioid Data Analysis | Drug Overdose | CDC Injury Center

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Regardless of the analysis strategy used, prescription opioids continue to be involved in more overdose deathsthan any other drug, and all the ...

Drug overdose deaths hit record numbers in 2014 | CDC ...

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Drug overdose deaths hit record numbers in 2014. Over 47,000 deaths last year, mostly due to opioid pain relievers and heroin

Decrease in Rate of Opioid Analgesic Overdose Deaths ...

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What is known already? Opioid analgesic–involved overdose mortality is a serious public health issue. In New York City, the rate of opioid analgesic ...

Increases in Heroin Overdose Deaths - Centers for Disease ...

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Increases in Heroin Overdose Deaths — 28 States, 2010 ... American College of Medical Toxicology Expert Panel on Evaluating and Reporting Opioid ...

Heroin overdose deaths increased in many states through ...

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Heroin overdose deaths increased in many states through 2012. Still twice as many people died from prescriptionopioid overdoses

Vital Signs: Overdoses of Prescription Opioid Pain ...

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Vital Signs: Overdoses of Prescription Opioid Pain Relievers and Other Drugs Among Women — United States, 1999–2010. On July 2, this report was posted ...

Prescription Drug Overdose | Prescription Drug Overdose ...

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Common Elements in Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic ... to more abuse and more overdose deaths. ... Fighting the Prescription Drug ...

CDC Online Newsroom - Press Release - Opioids drive ...

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Opioids drive continued increase in drug overdose deaths . Drug overdose deaths increase for 11th consecutive year. Drug overdose deaths increased for ...

Prescription Painkiller Overdoses | VitalSigns | CDC

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400%. Deaths from prescription painkiller overdoses among women have increased more than 400% since 1999, compared to 265% among men.

Poisoning Deaths Involving Opioid Analgesics — New York ...

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Poisoning Deaths Involving Opioid Analgesics — New York State, 2003–2012. Please note: An erratum has been published for this article. To view the ...

Vital Signs: Risk for Overdose from Methadone Used for ...

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Background: Vital statistics data suggest that the opioid pain reliever (OPR) methadone is involved in one third of OPR-related overdose deaths, but ...

Vital Signs: Overdoses of Prescription Opioid Pain ...

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Background: Overdose deaths involving opioid pain relievers (OPR), also known as opioid analgesics, have increased and now exceed deaths involving ...

CDC Grand Rounds: Prescription Drug Overdoses — a U.S ...

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Prescription opioid overdose deaths—Utah, 2008–2009. Presented at the 59th Annual Epidemic Intelligence Service Conference. Atlanta, GA, April 19–23, ...

Overdose Deaths Involving Prescription Opioids Among ...

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Overdose Deaths Involving Prescription Opioids Among Medicaid Enrollees --- Washington, 2004--2007. During 1999--2006, the number of poisoning deaths ...

[PDF] Drug-poisoning Deaths Involving Opioid Analgesics: United ...

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NCHS Data Brief No. 166 September 2014 3 Benzodiazepines were involved in 31% of the opioid-analgesic poisoning deaths in 2011, up from 13% of such de ...

Understanding the Epidemic | Prescription Drug Overdose ...

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... and Death. A big part of the ... Problematic prescribing practices are a leading contributor to epidemic. ... A prescription drug that can reverse ...