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Drug Overdoses Are On the Decline, in Charts

The U.S. is making progress against one of its most devastating public health threats: drug overdoses. Over the 12 months ending in October 2024, the country saw a 25% decline in overdose deaths ...
Yahoo

Fentanyl epidemic 'off the charts': Drug overdose deaths in Athens reaches record highs

In 2022, new records were set for drug overdose casualties in Athens, with the total deaths reaching 60. The largest number of those deaths were attributed to fatal doses of fentanyl, a synthetic ...
The Economist

America’s fentanyl epidemic, explained in six charts

Purdue Pharma first released OxyContin, an opioid painkiller, in 1996. Other drugmakers followed, and scores of Americans got hooked on the highly addictive pills. In 2010 Purdue reformulated ...
PBS

How dozens of U.S. adolescents are dying of drug overdoses each month, shown in 3 charts

Drug overdose deaths in the United States continue to rise. Overdoses claimed more than 112,000 American lives from May 2022 to May 2023, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a ...
Medscape

Majority of Trusts Still Using Paper Notes and Drug Charts

Only a quarter of NHS trusts have fully transitioned to electronic patient records (EPR), and most remain reliant on paper patient notes and drug charts, according to a survey. This is despite the NHS ...