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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.
1999-2019 chart. 1999-2018 chart. 2000-2017 chart. 2000-2016 chart. Author: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. On some versions the chart was cropped by User:Timeshifter. Freeware IrfanView was used to add a border, and to edit the caption text on the chart. Other versions: See: File talk:Timeline. Overdose deaths involving opioids ...
U.S. drug overdose deaths dropped slightly in 2023, according to early data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the first annual decrease in drug overdose deaths since 2018.
Overdose deaths spiked 30% between 2019 and 2020 and rose another 15% between 2020 and 2021, according to the CDC. “There were extraordinary increases in 2020 and 2021 that have started to ...
In Palm Beach County, Florida, overdose deaths went from 149 in 2012 to 588 in 2016. [173] In Middletown, Ohio, overdose deaths quadrupled in the 15 years since 2000. [174] In British Columbia, 967 people died of an opiate overdose in 2016, and the Canadian Medical Association expected over 1,500 deaths in 2017. [175]
Between 1999 and 2002, total drug overdose deaths eclipsed the number of lives lost by the U.S. in the Vietnam War, which was a staggering 47,000. We now lose that many Americans to drug overdoses ...
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.
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.