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City of Chicago www.chicagohan.org Chicago Department of Public Health Lori E. Lightfoot, Mayor Allison Arwady MD MPH, Commissioner August 13, 2021 2021 Chicago Mid-Year Opioid Report Key Messages and Action Steps • There were 5,517 opioid-related EMS responses1 and at least 467 opioid-related deaths2 in Chicago in January – June 2021.
Dec 23, 2020 · The use of fentanyl increased by 108% among OAT patients in Ontario during the COVID-19 pandemic from April to September 2020. It has been shown that several factors contribute to the increase of fentanyl in the drug market.
- Kristen A. Morin, Shreedhar Acharya, Joseph K. Eibl, David C. Marsh
- 10.1016/j.drugpo.2020.103088
- 2021
- Int J Drug Policy. 2021 Apr; 90: 103088.
Apr 4, 2021 · The number seized in August 2020 (n = 476) exceeded the highest pre-COVID-19 count in our analysis (385 in June 2019). No significant slopes were detected regarding heroin seizures, but the number of fentanyl seizures significantly increased across time (β = 0.05, SE = 0.01, P < .001).
- Joseph J Palamar, Austin Le, Thomas H Carr, Linda B Cottler
- 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2021.108580
- 2021
- Drug Alcohol Depend. 2021 Apr 1; 221: 108580.
May 1, 2024 · With the rapidly increasing rate of fentanyl overdoses in the late 2010s, that trend began to reverse — by the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, more Black Americans began to die of opioid overdoses and from drug overdoses of any kind, according to researchers at Penn State.
Between 2012 and 2019, overdose deaths climbed nationwide from a little over 40,000 to about 70,000 per year nationwide. But in 2020, with the COVID-19 pandemic and attendant lockdowns, overdose ...
Dec 7, 2021 · By D'Angelo Gore. Posted on December 7, 2021. U.S. border officials reported seizing 10,856 pounds of fentanyl being smuggled across the southwest border in fiscal year 2021, a 132% increase...
Feb 16, 2022 · Our exploratory examination of drug use changes after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic among a cohort of people living in rural Illinois who use drugs found increasing use of fentanyl, both intentional and unintentional, with a corresponding perceived increased risk of overdose.
