Overdose/Substance Misuse Repository

By: Illinois Statewide Epidemiological Outcomes WorkgroupIntroduction/Executive SummaryThis epidemiological profile of prescription drug use in Illinois was developed as part of a collaborative effort with the Illinois Statewide Epidemiological Outcomes Workgroup (SEOW). The purpose of this epidemiological profile is to explore and understand the emerging issue of prescription drug misuse in Illinois. The profile provides data […]

The Council of Economic Advisers, November 2017The opioid drug problem has reached crisis levels in the United States—in 2015, over 33,000 Americans died of a drug overdose involving opioids. CEA finds that previous estimates of the economic cost of the opioid crisis greatly understate it by undervaluing the most important component of the loss—fatalities resulting […]

September 2017The United States is in the middle of the deadliest drug crisis in our history. In Illinois and across the country, opioids are claiming more and more lives by the day. Fueled by the growing opioid epidemic, drug overdoses have now become the leading cause of death nationwide for people under the age of […]

View overdose death rates for the more commonly used drugs collected by National Center for Health Statistics at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention here.

Overdose deaths involving prescription opioids were five times higher in 2016 than 1999, and sales of these prescription drugs have quadrupled. From 1999 to 2016, more than 200,000 people have died in the U.S. from overdoses related to prescription opioidsOpioid prescribing continues to fuel the epidemic. Today, 40% of all U.S. opioid overdose deaths involve […]

Welcome to the fifth issue of the Illinois Morbidity and Mortality Bulletin (IMMB), an IDPH publication created to present topics of interest to public health communities and professionals in Illinois through scientific analysis and interpretation of data.In this issue, Heidi Clark and John Tharp use data from Illinois death records to examine the specific substances […]

By: NIH News in Health Drug abuse can be a painful experience—for the person who has the problem, and for family and friends who may feel helpless in the face of the disease. But there are things you can do if you know or suspect that someone close to you has a drug problem.Certain drugs can […]

By: Erin Brodwin, Business InsiderDeaths from opioid overdoses just jumped again.According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which released its latest report on Friday, the most recent tragic increase follows a pattern that’s been ongoing since 1999.In the last 16 years, more than 183,000 Americans have died from overdoses related to prescription opioids.However, […]

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