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There were around 68,700 drug overdose deaths in the United States in 2018. That is a rate of 210 deaths per million residents. [4] [5] Compare that rate to the 2018 rates of the European countries in the first chart below. Drug overdose death rates for European countries. [15] [16] Location links below are "Healthcare in LOCATION" links.
5 April 2019 - Date the chart was first uploaded to the Commons. See file history for dates of later uploads. Source: Opioid Data Analysis and Resources. CDC. Scroll down to "Trends in Death Rates" section. 1999-2020 chart. 1999-2019 chart. 1999-2018 chart. 2000-2017 chart. 2000-2016 chart. Author: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The figure above is a bar and line graph showing the total number of U.S. overdose deaths involving benzodiazepines from 1999 to 2021. Drug overdose deaths involving benzodiazepines steadily increased from 1,135 in 1999 to 11,537 in 2017 and declined to 9,711 in 2019. Between 2019 and 2021, deaths rose again to 12,499.
The statewide opioid death rate was 27 deaths per 100,000 population in 2022, the most recent state data show. ... The CDC estimated more than 36,000 overdose deaths last year involved ...
Drug overdose deaths involving cocaine and psychostimulants such as methamphetamine have been rising quickly in the United States in recent years, and a new report from the US Centers for Disease ...
The CDC presumes that a large proportion of the increase in deaths is due to illegally-made fentanyl; as the statistics on overdose deaths (as of 2015) do not distinguish pharmaceutical fentanyl from illegally-made fentanyl, the actual death rate could, therefore, be much higher than reported.
Tackling prescription drug abuse will hardly make a dent in America's ongoing opioid crisis in the coming years, a new study suggests. Opioid death toll could top 700K over a decade, study says ...
The figure above is a bar chart showing the total number of U.S. overdose deaths involving other synthetic opioids from 2002 to 2016 and provisional 2017 data. Other synthetic opioids is a category dominated by illicit fentanyl. The chart is overlayed by a line graph showing the number of deaths of females and males.