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- The Rise of Illicit Fentanyls, Stimulants and the Fourth Wave of the . . .
A ‘fourth wave’ of high mortality involving methamphetamine and cocaine use has been gathering force in the US Availability and use of illicit fentanyls are still the major drivers of overdose deaths and the current rise in stimulant-related deaths appears entwined with the ongoing opioid epidemic
- Understanding the Opioid Overdose Epidemic - CDC
There have been three distinct waves of increases in opioid overdose deaths over the last 25 years, with each wave driven by different types of opioids Increasing communities' overdose prevention and response support, capacity, and education may help save lives
- 4th Wave in U. S. Overdose Crisis: 50x Surge in Deaths . . . - SciTechDaily
UCLA research identifies a 50-fold increase in US overdose deaths involving fentanyl and stimulants since 2010, marking a concerning ‘fourth wave’ in the opioid crisis The rise in polysubstance use presents unique healthcare challenges, with racial minorities disproportionately affected and regional variances in drug combinations
- Fourth Wave of Opioid (Illicit Drug) Overdose Deaths and Diminishing . . .
overdose death rates involving synthetic opioids, psychostimulants, cocaine, and heroin have been increasing, including prescription opioid deaths, which were declining, but, recently, reversing the trends
- The Fourth Wave of the Opioid Overdose Epidemic - The Cornell Healthca
The Opioid Overdose Epidemic in the states has led to the deaths of over half a million people between just 1999 and 2020 This two-decade time span has been split up into three waves: over-prescription of opioids, heroin-related deaths, and, finally, synthetic opioids, particularly fentanyl, deaths [1]
- Fentanyl plus stimulants drives ‘fourth wave’ of overdose epidemic in . . .
Once propelled by prescription opioids and then heroin, the decadeslong crisis was overwhelmed by synthetic opioids in the mid-2010s Now it has taken on a new challenge: so-called polysubstance
- The fourth wave of the US opioid epidemic and its implications for the . . .
A variety of recent data suggest that we have entered a fourth wave which can be characterized as a stimulant opioid epidemic, with mental illness co-morbidities being more evident than in the past
- Current Opinion in Psychiatry - LWW
Overall opioid-related overdose deaths increased 33 9 percentage (September, 2020: 64,472 deaths), driven by a dramatic increase in synthetic opioid-related overdose – a 53 1 percentage increase (September, 2020: 52,157 deaths) Prescription opioid-related overdose shows the first increase in years, 10 6 percentage y-o-y
- Charting the fourth wave: Geographic, temporal, race ethnicity and . . .
Recently, scholars have argued that the ‘fourth wave’ of the US overdose crisis has begun, in recognition of rapidly rising polysubstance overdose deaths involving illicitly manufactured fentanyls, with stimulants playing a key role [4 - 7]
- What is the Opioid Epidemic? A public health explainer
Over its history, the opioid epidemic has moved through four phases, or “waves ” These waves are overlapping, creating epidemics within epidemics The first wave of the opioid epidemic began in the 1990s with an increase in opioid prescriptions, which included natural and semi-synthetic compounds
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