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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 ...
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.
According to the county, 73% of the 176 overdose deaths last year were due to fentanyl. Deaths from methamphetamine overdoses were 10% of the total. Another 10% were caused by other drugs, and 8% ...
Last year, Travis County had 13 people ages 16-20 die of an overdose, with fentanyl being present in 12 of those deaths. Since fentanyl deaths began increasing, the county has worked to try to get ...
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 ...
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.
As of Dec. 20, 2023, CNT had recorded 86 overdose deaths, a year-over-year increase of 45.8%. Between 2021 (46) and 2022 (59), deaths caused by drug overdoses increased by 13, or 28.2%.