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  2. United States drug overdose death rates and totals over time

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    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.

  3. California opioid crisis - Wikipedia

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    Synthetic opioids, most notably fentanyl and drugs laced with it have seen increasing usage in the American city of San Francisco, California since 2019. [4] In 2023, 810 people died from accidental drug overdoses, a majority containing fentanyl, in San Francisco, [5] with overdoses per 100,000 people being more than double the national average ...

  4. What the numbers, including ZIP codes, reveal about the ... - AOL

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    Stanislaus County’s rate of opioid overdose emergency room visits (60.6 per 100,000) is close to that of San Francisco, one of the cities hardest hit by fentanyl deaths. San Francisco’s rate ...

  5. California schools are battling a fentanyl crisis. Why are ...

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    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 ...

  6. List of deaths from drug overdose and intoxication - Wikipedia

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    Deaths from accidents or misadventure caused by drug overdoses or intoxication are also included on this list. Deaths from long-term effects of drugs, such as tobacco-related cancers and cirrhosis from alcohol, are not included, nor are deaths from lethal injection or legal euthanasia .

  7. California prison deaths from drug overdoses surged in 2023 ...

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    With a lower prison population than in previous years, California’s 2023 numbers represent a record high overdose death rate of at least 62 per 100,000 prisoners — and the numbers are likely ...

  8. California is joining with a New Jersey company to buy a ...

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    Annual opioid overdose deaths in California more than doubled since 2019, reaching 7,385 deaths at the end of 2022. California began giving away naloxone kits for free in 2018. State officials say the Naloxone Distribution Project has given out 4.1 million kits, which have reversed a reported 260,000 opioid overdoses.

  9. California overdose death linked to opioid three times ...

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    A Santa Clarita man was charged this week in what federal prosecutors believe is the country's first death due to a synthetic opioid three times stronger than fentanyl. Benjamin Anthony Collins ...