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  1. Drug Overdose Deaths: Facts and Figures - National Institute on …

    Aug 21, 2024 · Because drug overdose deaths often require lengthy investigations, data are updated as new information is received. For more recent provisional data, please see …

  2. Understanding an Overdose and How to Respond to One

    Oct 24, 2024 · Today, we are going to learn about drug overdoses, how to identify the symptoms of a drug overdose, and what you can do to help if you think someone is having an overdose.

  3. Overdose Reversal Medications - National Institute on Drug Abuse …

    Oct 17, 2023 · Overdose reversal medications are safe and effective life-saving tools that can be given to someone experiencing a drug overdose. As a harm reduction tool, overdose reversal …

  4. Opioids | National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

    Jun 17, 2025 · Use of opioids, either by themselves or in combination with other drugs, is a major driver of the drug overdose crisis in the United States. The vast majority of overdose deaths in …

  5. Older Black men are disproportionately affected by the overdose …

    Aug 30, 2024 · Although white and Black people use drugs at similar rates, fatal overdoses have escalated in Black people at a much higher rate than in other groups over the past decade, …

  6. Overdose Prevention Centers | National Institute on Drug Abuse

    Aug 28, 2023 · Overdose prevention centers provide trained staff who can detect and respond to overdoses alongside other services. Overdose prevention centers are one of several harm …

  7. Naloxone DrugFacts | National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

    Jan 11, 2022 · It only reverses overdoses in people with opioids in their systems. There are two FDA-approved formulations of naloxone: injectable and prepackaged nasal spray.

  8. NIDA.NIH.GOV | National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

    NIDA's mission is to advance science on the causes and consequences of drug use and addiction and to apply that knowledge to improve individual and public health. NIDA is one of the …

  9. More than 321,000 U.S. children lost a parent to drug overdose …

    May 8, 2024 · An estimated 321,566 children in the United States lost a parent to drug overdose from 2011 to 2021, according to a study published in JAMA Psychiatry. The rate of children …

  10. NIDA IC Fact Sheet 2025 | National Institute on Drug Abuse

    Mar 7, 2024 · In 2022, about 110,000 people died of drug overdoses. 3 Black and American Indian/Alaska Native people are estimated to have the highest rates of fatal overdose. 4