Fatal drug overdoses rose to record levels even as shipments of prescription painkillers plunged.
with fresh data chronicling how fatal drug overdoses rose to record levels even as shipments of prescription painkillers plunged. Users first became addicted to painkillers flooding the country. They then turned to cheaper and more easily available drugs, like heroin and fentanyl, after law enforcement crackdowns, public outcry and changes in how doctors prescribed opioids.was released yesterday by attorneys involved in the years-long litigation against major opioid industry players.
from 2011 to 2019. But by 2019, the rate of overdose deaths from fentanyl — a powerful synthetic opioid — had skyrocketed.The number of hydrocodone and oxycodone pills that were shipped to pharmacies and practitioners in 2019 — a stark decrease from the peak ofThe number of prescription opioids that increased in the final five years of the data. Shipments declined for every prescription opioid except buprenorphine, a medication used to treat opioid addiction.
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