T een 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. Teens consume the ...
Schools are introducing new measures and drug prevention organizations are adding to their curricula to combat a disturbing rise in teen overdose ... have doubled over the last three years.
Despite an overall decrease in drug use among teens compared to prior years, one startling trend accelerated – drug overdose ...
On his 15th birthday, the Durango, Colorado, teen spent a cold December afternoon chopping ... Friedman identified Colorado as a hot spot for high school-aged adolescent overdose deaths, with a ...
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.
Today, WBUR reporter Martha Bebinger brings The Common to a pediatrician's office in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, and discusses the role pediatricians can play in preventing drug overdose deaths among ...
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Marion County is the 19th worst county in the country for teen overdose deaths with a rate four times the national average, according to a new study. A study from the New ...
AUSTIN (KXAN) — On Tuesday, an 18-year-old was sentenced on a murder charge in connection with an April 2023 fentanyl overdose death ... Desean Ray will serve 10 years in prison following ...
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.
On his 15th birthday, the Durango teen spent a cold December afternoon ... as a hot spot for high school-aged adolescent overdose deaths, with a mortality rate more than double that of the nation ...
(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.