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Escalating Cocaine-Opioid Deaths Started Well Before Pandemic


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Overdose deaths involving both opioids and either cocaine or psychostimulants were rising long before anyone heard of COVID-19, a National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) report showed.
From 2009 to 2019, deaths involving both cocaine and opioids rose more quickly than those involving cocaine but not opioids, reported Holly Hedegaard, MD, of the NCHS Division of Analysis and Epidemiology, and co-authors, in an
From 2009 to 2019, the rate of overdose deaths involving both cocaine and opioids jumped from 0.7 to 3.8 per 100,000, while overdose deaths involving cocaine without opioids increased from 0.7 to 1.1, Hedegaard and co-authors said. In 2019, 76% of cocaine-related overdose deaths also involved an opioid. This varied by region, from 83% in the Northeast to 63% in the West. ....

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Key findings
Data from the National Vital Statistics System, Mortality
From 2009 through 2019, the rate of overdose deaths involving both cocaine and opioids increased at a faster pace than the rate of overdose deaths with cocaine but no opioids.
In 2019, 76% of overdose deaths involving cocaine also involved an opioid; the percentage varied by region, from 83% in the Northeast to 63% in the West.
From 2009 through 2016, the rate of overdose deaths involving psychostimulants but no opioids was higher than the rate for deaths involving both drugs; from 2017 through 2019, the pattern reversed with a higher rate for deaths involving both psychostimulants and opioids.
In 2019, 54% of overdose deaths involving psychostimulants also involved an opioid; the percentage varied by region, from 80% in the Northeast to 44% in the West. ....

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