(The Hill) – Teen overdose deaths have doubled in three years, an alarming trend amid a historic decline in drug and alcohol use among high school students. The main reason is fentanyl.
UPDATE: A teen girl has been charged in the deaths ... overdose, she was upset on Mother’s Day. “She had smoked a little weed, you know, she been through a lot. Her mom abandoned her three ...
One is that teen overdose deaths have sharply risen, with fentanyl-involved deaths among adolescents doubling from 2019 to 2020 and remaining at that level in the subsequent years. Dr. Nora Volkow ...
And since 2002, the rate of deaths from a drug overdose has quadrupled, largely fueled by the highly lethal fentanyl, new data shows. Fentanyl has increasingly contaminated the illegal supply of ...
Colin Andrew Shapard, 23, was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in prison followed by three years of supervised ... he was already responsible for the deaths of two young teens.
Drug overdose deaths in Bartholomew County so far this ... “We have rarely seen people test positive for heroin over the last two to three years, and most people who think they are taking ...
Three of the overdoses proved fatal. The drugs were often advertised over social media, officials said. If convicted, Gaitan and Soliz could each spend up to 20 years in federal prison.
Deadly, addictive fentanyl has certainly earned the spotlight when it comes to overdose ... Deaths related to psychostimulant use have more than doubled in California over just three years ...
Despite an overall decrease in drug use among teens compared to prior years, one startling trend accelerated – drug overdose deaths ... have shown that there are three particularly vulnerable ...
“During the past three years, our community ... the North County saw 70 fentanyl overdose deaths in 2022 but 46 in 2023. South County fentanyl deaths doubled from 33 in 2021 to 66 in 2023.
West Virginia’s drug overdose death rate has skyrocketed since 2005 when it averaged 10.5 deaths per 100,000 residents. The rate has nearly doubled ... over the past three years.