{"id":2417,"date":"2014-09-16T14:47:43","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T17:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=2417"},"modified":"2014-09-16T14:47:43","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T17:47:43","slug":"drug-poisoning-deaths-involving-opioid-analgesics-united-states-1999-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2014\/09\/16\/2417\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug-poisoning Deaths Involving Opioid Analgesics:  United States, 1999\u20132011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poisoning is the leading cause of injury death in the United States. Drugs\u2014both illicit and pharmaceutical\u2014are the major cause of poisoning deaths, accounting for 90% of poisoning deaths in 2011. \u00a0Misuse or abuse of prescription drugs, including opioid-analgesic pain relievers, is responsible for much of the recent increase in drug-poisoning deaths.<\/p>\n<p>A new\u00a0<a title=\"Drug-poisoning Deaths Involving Opioid Analgesics:  United States, 1999\u20132011\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db166.pdf\">report<\/a> highlights trends in drug-poisoning deaths involving opioid analgesics (referred to as opioid-analgesic poisoning deaths) and updates previous Data Briefs on this topic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db166.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db166_fig1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"317\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Findings from the Report:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The age-adjusted rate for opioid-analgesic poisoning deaths nearly quadrupled from 1.4 per 100,000 in 1999 to 5.4 per 100,000 in 2011.<\/li>\n<li>Although the opioid-analgesic poisoning death rates increased each year from 1999 through 2011, the rate of increase has slowed since 2006.<\/li>\n<li>Natural and semisynthetic opioid analgesics, such as hydrocodone, morphine, and oxycodone, were involved in 11,693 drug-poisoning deaths in 2011, up from 2,749 deaths in 1999.<\/li>\n<li>Benzodiazepines were involved in 31% of the opioid-analgesic poisoning deaths in 2011, up from 13% of the opioid-analgesic poisoning deaths in 1999.<\/li>\n<li>During the past decade, adults aged 55\u201364 and non-Hispanic white persons experienced the greatest increase in the rates of opioid-analgesic poisoning deaths.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poisoning is the leading cause of injury death in the United States. Drugs\u2014both illicit and pharmaceutical\u2014are the major cause of poisoning deaths, accounting for 90% of poisoning deaths in 2011. \u00a0Misuse or abuse of prescription drugs, including opioid-analgesic pain relievers, is responsible for much of the recent increase in drug-poisoning deaths. A new\u00a0report highlights trends<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49481],"tags":[63978,63979],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}