(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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Tanner Welsh’s 108-month sentence to federal prison will be followed by three years of supervised release ... officers responded to a fatal overdose of the teen. Police located several small ...
Tanner Welsh, 21, of Portland was sentenced to nine years and three years of ... percentage increase in overdose deaths nationwide Investigators also found that the teen exchanged several texts ...
Tanner Welsh, 21, was sentenced to 108 months in federal prison and three years supervised ... found that the teen had exchanged several texts with Welsh before their overdose, which was in ...
According to the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), there were 884 teen overdose deaths from illicit fentanyls and synthetics in 2021, up from 680 in 2020 and 253 in 2019.
“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.