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Kentucky’s rate of drug overdose deaths dropped by nearly 10% in 2023 compared to the year before, outpacing the national rate, according to the state’s Office of Drug Control Policy’s ...
Drug overdose deaths in Kentucky fell nearly 10% in 2023, marking a second straight annual decline in the fight against an addiction epidemic that's far from over, Gov. Andy Beshear said Thursday.
A total of 1,984 Kentuckians died last year from a drug overdose, down 9.8% from the prior year, according to the 2023 Kentucky Drug Overdose Fatality Report. Fentanyl — a powerful synthetic opioid — remained the biggest culprit, accounting for 79% of overdose deaths in 2023, the report said.
Overdose deaths have declined in Kentucky, by 9.8 percent in 2023 compared with 2022. Yet, the Commonwealth still lost 1,984 people to overdoses last year. Yet, the Commonwealth still lost 1,984 ...
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 ...
Drug overdose and intoxication are significant causes of accidental death and can also be used as a form of suicide. Death can occur from overdosing on a single or multiple drugs, or from combined drug intoxication (CDI) due to poly drug use. Poly drug use often carries more risk than use of a single drug, due to an increase in side effects ...
Preliminary data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show a 3% drop in drug deaths nationwide in 2023 and nearly an 8% reduction in KY’s fatal overdoses
In the United States, there were approximately 109,600 drug-overdose-related deaths in the 12-month period ending January 31, 2023, at a rate of 300 deaths per day. [5] From 1999 to 2020, nearly 841,000 people died from drug overdoses, [ 6 ] with prescription and illicit opioids responsible for 500,000 of those deaths. [ 7 ]