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Fentanyl was present in three quarters of cocaine overdose deaths in one Ohio county
Across 1,150 unintentional cocaine-related overdose deaths in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, between 2014 and 2024, fentanyl was also present in 74.6%, and the two groups differed sharply by age and race.
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Former US service members died of despair causes more often than civilians in two states
Linking Massachusetts and Minnesota death certificates for 176,719 decedents aged 18-64 to military personnel files, former service members had proportionate mortality ratios for alcohol, drug and suicide deaths of 111.9 in Massachusetts and 106.7 in Minnesota relative to non-military decedents.
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US life expectancy ranked 38th in 2023 as the gap with peer countries widened
An analysis of US and comparator mortality data finds US life expectancy ranked 38th globally in 2023, with the gap against 16 high-income countries widening and the rising death rates concentrated at younger and working ages.
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Peer-derived fMRI neurofeedback during a film reduced craving in opioid use disorder
A real-time fMRI study trained people with opioid use disorder to align prefrontal activity with a signal derived from peers further into recovery watching the same film, and reported reduced craving against sham feedback, in a preprint that gives no sample size.
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The same naloxone increase is modelled to save six times more lives in one county
A simulation calibrated to six Pennsylvania counties projected that an identical 30% rise in naloxone distribution would cut 2029 overdose deaths by 70% in Allegheny but 11% in Erie, a difference tracking each county's past variability in dispensing rather than any observed outcome.
