The findings underscore the fact that teens face serious danger from the kinds of drugs circulating in the U.S., including fentanyl.
Deadly drug overdoses among U.S. teenagers have more than doubled in frequency in recent years, even as those in the age group became less likely to use illegal drugs, researchers from UCLA and elsewhere found in a newly published analysis.
Fewer teens are experimenting with drugs, but those who do “are at a much higher risk of overdose death because of the spread of counterfeit pills that look like Percocet and OxyContin or Xanax, but they’re actually illicit fentanyl,” he said.
“This is particularly worrisome for people buying non-opioids like benzos,” who haven’t built up tolerance to opioids and can end up overdosing on fentanyl, said Pardo, who was not involved in the study.first time there has been such a sharp increase in deadly overdoses among teensThe team of researchers used data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to calculate the rates of overdose deaths among 14- to 18-year-olds, tracking how they changed from January 2010 to June 2021.
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