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Public Health Crisis: Prescription Drug Abuse in Idaho

 (Drug-induced deaths do not include newborn deaths associated with mother’s drug use,
accidents such as falls and motor vehicle crashes, homicides, and other causes indirectly related to drug use.)

 

Information gleaned from Death Certificates by Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics, Division of Health, Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, March 2011.

 

Ten-Year Trends:

  • From 2000 to 2009, 1244 Idaho residents died from a drug-induced death.
  • The number of drug-induced deaths increased two and a half times from 69 (2000) to 184 (2009).

Three-Year Aggregate:

  • Ninety-five percent (95.2 percent) of Idaho resident drug-induced deaths occurred within the State from 2007 to 2009.
  • Sixty percent (60.0 percent) of drug-induced deaths to Idaho residents from 2007 to 2009 were the result of an accidental poisoning.
  • The most common substance listed on the death certificates among those who died in Idaho were:
            Narcotics (262 deaths)

                              Hydrocodone (68 deaths)

                              Methadone (54 deaths)

                              Oxycodone / Oxycontine (43 Deaths)

                              Morphine (28 Deaths)

                              Heroin (6 Deaths)

      Antiepileptic, Sedative-Hypnotic, Antiparkinsonism and                  Psychotropic (225 Deaths)

                              Anti-depressants (65 deaths)

                              Benzodiazepine (60 deaths)

                              Methamphetamine (25 Deaths)

                              Muscle Relaxants (23 Deaths)

                              Cannabis / Marijuana (2 Deaths)

      Alcohol in combination with drugs (65 deaths)

  • More than 40 percent of Death Certificates (184 out of 456 deaths) did not list a specific drug, medicament, or biological substance as contributing to the drug-induced death.