(The Hill) – 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.
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Despite an overall decrease in drug use among teens compared to prior years, one startling trend accelerated – drug overdose deaths. According to the latest available data from the Centers for ...
Gavinn McKinney’s mother and one of his sisters hold hands after a February committee hearing at the Colorado state Capitol on the bill that McKinney inspired. (Rae Ellen Bichell/KFF Health News) ...
CHARLESTON — West Virginia led the nation in drug overdose death rates in 2017, followed closely by Ohio and Pennsylvania, according to a study released this week by the Commonwealth Fund.
According to the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), there were 884 teen overdose deaths from illicit fentanyls and synthetics in 2021, up from 680 in 2020 and 253 in 2019.
A Westwood man was charged in the fentanyl-laced drug overdose death of a teenager in September 2023, authorities said Wednesday. Jordan Clarke, 24, has been charged with first-degree strict ...
Drug overdose deaths in Ventura County declined in 2023 for the second year in a row, even as fentanyl continued to crowd out less deadly opioids in the illicit drug market. Last year, 265 people ...
Gavinn McKinney loved Nike shoes, fireworks and sushi. He was studying Potawatomi, one of the languages of his Native American heritage. He loved holding his niece and smelling her baby smell.