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Most overdose deaths in the U.S. involve opioids, but a new CDC report shows methamphetamine has become the biggest killer in 19 western states.
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 ...
In 2012, 16,000 prescriptions for methamphetamine were filled, approximately 1.2 million Americans reported using it in the past year, and 440,000 reported using the drug in the past month. [2] Until the 1980s, the methamphetamine market in the United States was dominated by outlaw motorcycle gangs, namely the Hells Angels.
The first Drug court in the United States took shape in Miami-Dade County, Florida in 1989 as a response to the growing crack-cocaine usage in the city. Chief Judge Gerald Wetherington, Judge Herbert Klein, then State Attorney Janet Reno and Public Defender Bennett Brummer designed the court for nonviolent offenders to receive treatment.
The report cites 249 homeless deaths recorded by the medical examiner in 2022 and 66 deaths recorded by hospitals. More than 5,000 people were experiencing homelessness in the county in 2022 ...
The manner of death of Jonathan Rose Eddens, 35, of El Paso, is "best classified as accident," El Paso County Deputy Medical Examiner Adam Gonzalez wrote in an autopsy report. Efforts to reach ...
A 41-year-old Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy died in a methamphetamine overdose at a sheriff’s station in April, according to authorities.
Location of Multnomah County, Oregon. Faces of Meth was a drug prevention project, run by the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office in the U.S. state of Oregon. [1] The project uses mug shots of repeat offenders to demonstrate the harmful and damaging effects of methamphetamine on its users.