Healthy pattern includes seven to eight hours of sleep nightly and sleeping through the night without sleep medications
Mortality rate within five years of drunk driving arrest lower for participants in a 24/7 alcohol monitoring program
Proportion of deaths co-involving methamphetamine and heroin or fentanyl peaked at 61.2 percent in 2021
However, physicians had substantially lower excess mortality than the general U.S. population
Findings not just for obstetric causes, but also for drug-related deaths, homicide, and motor vehicle crashes
About 90 and 83.9 percent of overdose deaths involved opioids and illicitly manufactured fentanyls
COVID-19 will remain the third-largest killer for 2022, behind heart disease and cancer, even with the reduced numbers
Overdose mortality increased about 81 percent from 2017 to 2020 among pregnant and postpartum women
Rates of alcohol-induced deaths in 2020 increased with age, peaking for those aged 55 to 64 years
Rate even higher among younger adults aged 20 to 49 years, with an estimated one in five deaths