Substance Use Disorder
SHADAC Senior Research Fellow Colin Planalp recently joined Angela Davis on Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) News to discuss life expectancy in the United States. The segment centered on findings from multiple reports, including one out of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which showed… Read more
In more than 20 years, the overdose crisis has shifted and grown from prescription opioids to a range of illicitly trafficked drugs
Just over a decade after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) declared an “epidemic” of overdoses from prescription painkillers in 2011,… Read more
As part of our commitment to releasing relevant and timely state-level data, estimates for six measures on SHADAC’s State Health Compare web tool have recently been updated with data from the first years of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 and 2021. Data for each of these measures is drawn from a… Read more
Size of alcohol, drug overdose death increases in first pandemic year were unparalleled
With the recent release of 2020 mortality data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), we now know that fears that the pandemic could result in increased drug and alcohol deaths were well… Read more
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Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have been demonstrably far-ranging, including changes to substance use-related behaviors.1 Evidence indicates that opioid use disorders (OUDs), overdoses, and overdose deaths grew as a result of COVID-19-… Read more
Date: Tuesday, September 21st Time: 3:00 PM Central / 4:00 PM Eastern While much public attention has been given to the opioid epidemic, the United States has been quietly experiencing another growing public health crisis that surpasses opioid overdoses as a cause of substance… Read more
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The impacts of the coronavirus pandemic have been far ranging—on education, work, healthcare, and almost every other aspect of daily life. However, another effect of COVID that is just now coming to light is the interruption of data collection… Read more
Fentanyl- and methamphetamine-type drugs surged roughly 50 percent in 2020
Drug overdose deaths surged in the United States during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, increasing nearly 30 percent in just 12 months. Provisional data recently published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and… Read more