The overdose crisis among U.S. adolescents
미국 청소년의 과다복용 위기
Source: NEJM 1/11/24
Every week in 2022, the equivalent of a high-school classroom’s worth of students — an average of 22 adolescents — died of drug overdoses in the United States, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Drug overdoses and poisonings are now the third-leading cause of pediatric deaths in this country, after firearm-related injuries and motor vehicle crashes.1 Although drug-related mortality among adults has risen steadily for multiple decades, adolescents had been largely insulated from these increases until the second half of 2019.2 After more than a decade of holding relatively steady, overdose deaths among adolescents 14 to 18 years of age more than doubled between August 2019 and March 2020 (see graph). Since then, this crisis has further intensified, with 5.2 deaths per 100,000 adolescents in 2022.
미국 청소년의 과다복용 위기
출처: NEJM 2024년 1월 11일
질병 통제 예방 센터(CDC)의 데이터에 따르면 2022년에는 매주 고등학교 교실에 해당하는 학생 수(평균 22명의 청소년)가 미국에서 약물 과다 복용으로 사망했습니다.