Rural Drug Addiction Research Center

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07/08/2021 Added

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Overdose deaths from methamphetamine are on the rise in Nebraska. A new report from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln crunches the numbers and explores the impact of drug use across the state.

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[00:00:02.562]Nebraska is the good life
[00:00:04.070]but like much of the nation,
[00:00:05.570]the state is grappling with health issues
[00:00:07.780]related to drug use.
[00:00:09.440]We are seeing overdoses,
[00:00:10.640]we're seeing overdose deaths increase locally.
[00:00:13.660]Ryan Herrschaft and his colleagues
[00:00:15.310]at the Rural Drug Addition Research Center paint a picture
[00:00:18.660]of what's happening across the state.
[00:00:21.270]From 2018 to 2019,
[00:00:23.580]overdose deaths involving psychostimulants,
[00:00:26.310]drugs like methamphetamine and cocaine rose almost 60%.
[00:00:31.170]The state experienced a large increase in admissions
[00:00:34.090]to publicly funded centered for treatment
[00:00:36.400]of methamphetamine use disorder up 200%
[00:00:39.940]over a 10-year period.
[00:00:41.830]In Nebraska we actually see
[00:00:43.520]more overdose deaths attributable
[00:00:45.840]to psychostimulants, such methamphetamine
[00:00:48.360]than we do attributable to synthetic opioids.
[00:00:52.440]From 2014 to 2020,
[00:00:54.440]only 2/3 of the death certificates
[00:00:56.580]for overdose cases listed a specific drug as the cause.
[00:01:00.910]So that means we have about 25% of overdose deaths
[00:01:03.810]in Nebraska where we don't know what specific drug
[00:01:06.520]is contributing to that overdose or causing that overdose.
[00:01:10.140]And that means that we are likely under counting some
[00:01:14.510]of our deaths that would be attributable to methamphetamine
[00:01:17.250]or synthetic opioids if an investigation was done.
[00:01:20.490]Researchers say it's important
[00:01:22.320]to track the numbers
[00:01:23.460]because rural areas don't get as much attention
[00:01:26.240]as their urban coutnerparts.
[00:01:28.360]That can kind of hide the problem
[00:01:31.500]or just hide what's going on.
[00:01:33.120]And we want to know what's going on in our environment
[00:01:36.100]so we can address it in the most appropriate way
[00:01:38.710]and come up with evidence-based policy
[00:01:41.050]and evidence-based public health initiatives around it.
[00:01:44.130]More research is needed to understand drug use
[00:01:46.760]and related health problems.
[00:01:48.330]Tracking the numbers is the first step.
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