{"id":735,"date":"2009-10-01T09:15:46","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T13:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchspressroom.wordpress.com\/?p=735"},"modified":"2009-10-01T09:15:46","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T13:15:46","slug":"increase-in-poisonings-from-opioid-painkillers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2009\/10\/01\/735\/","title":{"rendered":"Increase in poisonings from opioid painkillers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana\">NCHS recently released the report titled &#8220;Increase in Fatal Poisonings Involving Opioid Analgesics in the United States, 1999-2006.&#8221; This report shows the explosion of fatal poisonings from opioid painkillers over the past 7 years. For example, from 1999 through 2006, the number of fatal poisonings involving opioid analgesics more than tripled from 4,000 to 13,800 deaths. Opioid analgesics were involved in almost 40% of all poisoning deaths in 2006.The differences among states is also striking:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-741 aligncenter\" title=\"Age-adjusted death rates for poisonings involving opioid analgesics: Comparison of state and U.S. rates: United Stats, 2006\" src=\"http:\/\/nchspressroom.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/db22_fig5.png\" alt=\"Age-adjusted death rates for poisonings involving opioid analgesics: Comparison of state and U.S. rates: United Stats, 2006\" width=\"450\" height=\"289\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana\">For more information, visit the report at <a title=\"link to report\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db22.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db22.htm<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NCHS recently released the report titled &#8220;Increase in Fatal Poisonings Involving Opioid Analgesics in the United States, 1999-2006.&#8221; This report shows the explosion of fatal poisonings from opioid painkillers over the past 7 years. For example, from 1999 through 2006, the number of fatal poisonings involving opioid analgesics more than tripled from 4,000 to 13,800<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53763,62268,62286,62288,20939,63685,59554,53751],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735"}],"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=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}