More than 321,000 children lost a parent to a drug overdose between 2011 and 2021, a daunting blow that reflects the impact of the nation's addiction crisis on a generation of children. The rate ...
A new study estimates more than 321,000 children lost a parent to drug overdose between 2011 and 2021 with the rate of deaths more than doubling in that time frame. The study published in the JAMA ...
Data was sourced from the National Surveys on Drug Use and Health. Among every 100,000 children, the rate of those who lost a parent to overdose went from 27 per 100,000 to 62.1 by 2021. Though ...
Children with non-Hispanic American Indian/Alaska Native parents consistently experienced the highest rate of loss of a parent from overdose from 2011 to 2021 – with 187 per 100,000 children ...
About half of the 650,000 adults who died by OD between 2011 and 2021 left a child behind, researchers estimate More white American children lost parents to overdose than Hispanic or Black kids ...