NBC Nightly News reported, “The CDC” is now “warning overdose deaths among women, especially middle-aged women, are skyrocketing.”

The CBS News website reports, “A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention” published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report “reveals that drug overdose deaths among females aged 30 to 64 have skyrocketed in recent years.”

The NBC News website reports that “deaths from drug overdoses increased by 260 percent among women aged 30 to 64 between 1999 and 2017.” In addition, “the rate of drug overdose deaths from opioids increased by an enormous 492 percent among women aged 30 to 64,” investigators revealed.

CNN reports that for the study, researchers focused on “nationwide mortality data on people living in the United States between 1999 and 2017.” The data used in the study “came from the National Vital Statistics System, which is based on information from death certificates.” The study team closely examined “overdose death rates among women ages 30 to 64 overall and then by drug type: antidepressants, benzodiazepines, cocaine, heroin, prescription opioids and synthetic opioids, excluding methadone.”

From the news release of the American Association for Justice.