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Drug overdose deaths in the US per 100,000 people by state. [1] [2] A two milligram dose of fentanyl powder (on pencil tip) is a lethal amount for most people. [3] The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has data on drug overdose death rates and totals. Around 1,106,900 US residents died from drug overdoses from 1968 ...
Fentanyl is still involved in most cases, but the latest data shows that annual deaths are down 22% compared with a year earlier. There were about 58,000 deaths involving synthetic opioids in the ...
New estimates from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics projects that more than 112,000 people died from a drug overdose in the 12-month ...
The United States has the highest rate of drug overdose deaths out of 30 countries, according to a report from the health nonprofit the Commonwealth Fund. Overdose deaths in the U.S. dipped ...
According to the United States Drug Enforcement Agency in 2023, China continued to be the primary source of fentanyl being imported into the United States, killing over 100 Americans every day. [129] Over a two-year period, close to $800 million worth of fentanyl was illegally sold online to the US by Chinese distributors.
It was the first year-over-year decline in overdose deaths since 2018. In Michigan, overdose deaths were also down 3% in 2023, marking the second straight year the state's overdose deaths dropped.
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.
The Biden administration announced this year that state and local governments can use federal funds to purchase fentanyl test strips in hope of curbing the spike in overdose deaths. But many ...