Farnaz Chowdhury

Vital Signs: Drug Overdose Deaths, by Selected Sociodemographic and Social Determinants of Health Characteristics — 25 States and the District of Columbia, 2019–2020

Mbabazi Kariisa, Nicole L. Davis, Sagar Kumar, Puja Seth et autres

INTRODUCTION: Drug overdose deaths increased approximately 30% from 2019 to 2020 in the United States. Examining rates by demographic and social determinants of health characteristics can identify disproportionately affected populations and inform strategies to reduce drug overdose deaths. METHODS: Data from the …

Notes from the Field: Trends in Gabapentin Detection and Involvement in Drug Overdose Deaths — 23 States and the District of Columbia, 2019–2020

Christine L. Mattson, Farnaz Chowdhury, Thomas Gilson

Gabapentin is an anticonvulsant medication, which is also approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat postherpetic neuralgia, a painful complication of shingles, which results from reactivation of the varicella zoster virus.*, † Gabapentin is commonly used off-label to treat neuropathic …

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Trends in nonfatal and fatal overdoses involving benzodiazepines—38 states and the District of Columbia, 2019–2020

Stephen V. Liu, Julie O’Donnell, R. Matt Gladden, Londell McGlone et autres

This article describes the significant increase in benzodiazepine-involved overdose deaths between 2019 and 2020, with a particularly notable increase (of over 500%) in deaths related to illicit benzodiazepines (e.g., etizolam, flualprazolam, and flubromazolam). The vast majority of benzodiazepine-involved overdose deaths also involved …

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Trends in Nonfatal and Fatal Overdoses Involving Benzodiazepines — 38 States and the District of Columbia, 2019–2020

Stephen V. Liu, Julie O’Donnell, R. Matt Gladden, Londell McGlone et autres

Nonfatal and fatal drug overdoses increased overall from 2019 to 2020 (1).*Illicit benzodiazepines (e.g., etizolam, flualprazolam, and flubromazolam) † were increasingly detected among postmortem and clinical samples in 2020, often with opioids, § and might have contributed to overall increases in drug …