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Priority Health Issue #1: Substance Abuse
Community Result (statement should include geography and population of focus - see CHIP worksheet for more guidance)
Unintentional Medication and Drug Poisoning Deaths per 100,000 Population (5-year aggregates)
Current Value
21.8
Definition
Data Holes
Partners
Story Behind the Curve
Deaths, hospitalizations, and emergency department (ED) visits due to poisoning, particularly medication and drug poisoning, have become a growing public health concern nationally and in North Carolina. Since 1999 the number of drug poisoning deaths in North Carolina has increased by nearly 260 percent, from 363 to 1,306 in 2014. In addition, there were more than 11,000 hospitalizations in 2013 and nearly 22,000 ED visits in 2014 related to medication or drug poisoning. Prescription drugs have been a major driver of this epidemic with prescription opioids contributing to more than 50 percent of medication or drug poisoning deaths in 2014. Illicit drugs are also contributing to this problem in increasing numbers. The number of heroin-related deaths in North Carolina more than tripled from 79 deaths in 2011 to 253 deaths in 2014.
Prescription Drug Overdose Fact Sheet
Medication and Drug Overdoses in North Carolina, 2014 Data Update
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