Deaths due to drug overdose among people aged 65 and older in the US quadrupled over 20 years, according to a new study that calls for improved mental health and substance use disorder policies in the country.
Researchers, including those from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) in the US, assessed data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research (WONDER) database to estimate annual overdose deaths among seniors from 2002 to 2021.
