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. Teens consume the ...
Overdose deaths among teenagers have doubled over the last three years, and the deaths have quadrupled among seniors in the last two decades. The Associated Press contributed.
The cases reflect Oregon’s place in the nation’s fentanyl crisis -- adolescent drug overdose deaths have more than doubled ...
A high school student in Tennessee was charged with murder after two teenagers were found dead of a suspected drug overdose at ... TODAY Network.. All three teens, one 16 years old and the others ...
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 ...
Three of the overdoses proved fatal. The drugs were often advertised over social media, officials said. If convicted, Gaitan and Soliz could each spend up to 20 years in federal prison.
U.S. drug overdose deaths increased 30% from 2019 to 2020 and 15% in 2021, resulting in an estimated 108,000 deaths in 2021.* Among persons aged 14–18 years ... more than doubled, from 21 ...
The rate of drug overdose deaths linked to fentanyl in the United States has skyrocketed over the last five years, new federal ... due to cocaine more than doubled from 3.5 per 100,000 to 7.9 ...
Drug overdose deaths in the U.S. plateaued for most of 2022, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), showing just a slight increase after significant spikes in ...
CDC researchers documented 105,452 reported overdose deaths last year — and estimate that figure could be 109,680 — which is up 2 percent from the deaths reported in 2021.
Drug overdose deaths in the U.S. plateaued for most of 2022, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), showing just a slight increase after significant ...
