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☆ Drug Overdose Deaths Are Dropping in the East, but Not the West. Here’s Why. - The New York Times
  + stars: | 2024-09-27 | by ( Maia Szalavitz | Scott Gottlieb | John Woller | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +9 min
The good news is that recent data suggests a decline in overdose deaths, the first significant drop in decades. Skyrocketing overdose deaths are nearly unavoidable, regardless of whether a state enforces tough penalties for drug possession or decriminalizes it. Since 2021, at least two-thirds of America’s 100,000 annual overdose deaths involved a synthetic opioid like fentanyl. Overdose deaths in the Northeast Deaths per 100,000 people Looking at regional overdose deaths shows this pattern clearly. It’s not coincidental that the exponential rise in overdose deaths has occurred in tandem with a profound increase in income inequality.
Persons: bartenders, skyrockets, didn’t Organizations: for Disease Control, National Forensic Laboratory Locations: East Coast, United States, America, East, Mississippi, Texas, Idaho, Oregon, New York City, Chicago, Rural West Virginia, Florida, West, U.S, Mexico
☆ Bill Decriminalizing Drug Test Strips in Opioid-Devastated West Virginia Heads to Governor
  + stars: | 2024-01-26 | by ( Associated Press | Jan. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com   time to read: +2 min
“It just says, ‘test strips for deadly drugs will be exempted from drug paraphernalia,’” Rohrbach said. Political Cartoons View All 253 ImagesUnder West Virginia law, drug paraphernalia could be hypodermic syringes, needles, capsules, and balloons, among other items. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has described drug test strips as a low-cost method of helping prevent drug overdoses. The proportion of drug overdose deaths involving heroin has declined in recent years. Fentanyl and fentanyl analogues were involved in 76% of all drug overdose deaths occurring in West Virginia in 2021, up from 58% in 2017.
Persons: Jim Justice, Justice hasn't, we’ve, Matthew Rohrbach, Rohrbach, ” Rohrbach Organizations: Republican Gov, Justice, Republican, West, U.S . Centers for Disease Control, CDC, White, National Drug Control Locations: CHARLESTON, W.Va, West Virginia, U.S, Carfentanil
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