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Age-adjusted rate of overdose deaths involving cocaine and opioids increased more quickly than cocaine alone from 2011 to 2021

Monthly percentage of illicitly manufactured fentanyl-involved deaths with xylazine detected increased from 2.9 to 10.9 percent

Increase seen in age-adjusted rate of drug overdose deaths involving xylazine from 0.03 to 1.06 per 100,000 standard population

Findings seen across drug types and most ages, even when accounting for rates of drug misuse

Most patients with emergency department visit for nonfatal opioid overdose were men; most frequent drugs reported were fentanyl and heroin

To be sold as Opvee, the spray contains the medication nalmefene hydrochloride and will be available with a prescription

5 percent of deaths from opioids in 1999 were from fentanyl compared with 94.0 percent of opioid deaths by 2021

Overdose prevention centers allow people to use illegal drugs under supervision so they can potentially be revived if they overdose

Increase seen in age-adjusted drug overdose death rates involving methamphetamine, cocaine; decrease reported in death rates involving oxycodone

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved OTC Narcan nasal spray last month to be sold without a prescription