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Current and Binge Drinking Among High School Students — United States, 1991–2015

Scientific article

12 May 2017

Summary What is already known about this topic? Each year from 2006 to 2010, excessive alcohol consumption was responsible for approximately 4,300 deaths among persons aged <21 years, and, in 2010, underage drinking cost the United States...

Characteristics of Fentanyl Overdose — Massachusetts, 2014–2016

Scientific article

13 April 2017

Summary What is already known about this topic? Fentanyl has a growing presence in the illicit drug market and is involved in an increasing proportion of opioid overdose deaths. What is added by this report? Approximately two thirds of...

Public Health Strategies to Prevent Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome: CDC Grand Rounds

Scientific article

10 March 2017

Public Health Burden of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) is a drug withdrawal syndrome that most commonly occurs in infants after in utero exposure to opioids, although other substances have also been...

Multiple Fentanyl Overdoses — New Haven, Connecticut, June 23, 2016

Scientific article

3 February 2017

Summary What is already known about this topic? Fentanyl and its analogs have been substituted for heroin and other opioids, and are usually marketed to persons seeking opioids. Because of fentanyl’s high potency compared with heroin...

Webinar: Addressing the Unique Challenges of Opioid Use Disorder in Women

17 January 2017

Washington DC

United States

Deaths from drug overdoses are the number one cause of injury death in the U.S. Most of these deaths are related to the misuse of prescription opioids and heroin. While men were more likely than women to die of opioid overdose, the number of overdose deaths from opioids among women has increased substantially. Since 1999, women’s deaths have quadrupled from prescription painkiller overdose.

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CDC Public Health Grand Rounds January 2017