CDC Warns The Opioid Crisis Is 'Accelerating' As Deaths Surge 30 Percent Nationally

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

dailycaller
Steve Birr
Vice Reporter
4:18 PM 03/07/2018

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http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/07/cdc-warns-the-opioid-crisis-is-accelerating-as-deaths-surge-30-percent-nationally/

Opioid overdoses experienced another dramatic spike over the past year across every region of the country, according to a report from federal health officials.

Data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Tuesday shows emergency room hospitalizations for opioid overdoses increased by 30 percent between the third quarters of 2016 and 2017 as opioid addiction continued its rapid spread throughout the population. While the jump in overdoses was more pronounced in certain regions of the country, every area experienced an increase, reports NPR.

Hospitalizations for overdoses rose by 69.7 percent in the Midwest, 40.3 percent in the West, 21.3 percent in the Northeast and 20.2 percent in the Southwest. Overdoses in the Southeast rose at the slowest rate, increasing by 14 percent.

[Frank Cannon]

Excellent news. Pretty soon we will be rid of drug addicts and I won't have to listen to all this whining about losers killing themselves.

[jmyrlefuller]

Most indications at the local level, however, have suggested that the opioid death rate is actually going down.