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Senate Bill 10, also known as "Melanie's Law", was a bill heard by the California Senate in 2023. The bill was named after 15-year-old Melanie Ramos, a student at Hollywood's Helen Bernstein High School who passed away at school in September 2022 from what was thought to be a fentanyl overdose.
Drug overdose deaths in the US per 100,000 people by state. [1] [2] A two milligram dose of fentanyl powder (on pencil tip) is a lethal amount for most people. [3] The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has data on drug overdose death rates and totals. Around 1,106,900 US residents died from drug overdoses from 1968 ...
Overdose deaths increased 15 percent in 2021, up from an estimated 93,655 fatalities the year prior, according to a report from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), which ...
During the coronavirus pandemic, the overdose crisis in the United States has only continued to worsen. Overdose deaths hit all-time high in 2021. Why some drug policy experts still have hope
According to state data, opioid overdose deaths in California among those aged 15 to 19 shot up from 94 deaths in 2019 to 236 in 2021, though they’ve since begun to decline slightly. But parents ...
According to the National Safety Council, the lifetime odds of dying from an overdose in the United States is 1 in 96. [68] Drug overdose deaths in the US per 100,000 people by state. [69] [67] Charts of deaths involving specific opioids and classes of opioids
More than 107,600 Americans died from drug overdoses last year, the highest annual death toll on record. Fentanyl continues to drive the majority of overdose deaths.
In 2016, the WHO recorded 56.7 million deaths [3] with the leading cause of death as cardiovascular disease causing more than 17 million deaths (about 31% of the total) as shown in the chart to the side. In 2021, there were approx. 68 million deaths worldwide, as per WHO report. [4]