Methamphetamine Use Reaches All-Time High in People Who Use Fentanyl with No Signs of Slowing, Adding Fuel to U.S. Fentanyl Crisis
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Shifting trends in the co-detection of prescription opioids, heroin, methamphetamine, and cocaine nationally provide insight into how each has changed over time. - More recently, a fourth wave of overdose deaths co-involving fentanyl with stimulants like methamphetamine and cocaine has emerged.
- Stimulants were co-involved in over 30% of fentanyl overdose deaths in 2021, up from less than 1% in 2010.
- Millennium Health’s Signals Report shows that UDT data tightly correlate with U.S. overdose mortality rates and closely follow the evolution of America’s fentanyl crisis.