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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 ...
The estimated number of drug overdose deaths in the U.S. have been dropping for months and are now at their lowest levels in three years, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and ...
The third wave starting in 2013 was marked by a steep 1,040% increase in the synthetic opioid-involved death rate as synthetic opioids flooded the US market. [3] [4] In the United States, there were approximately 109,600 drug-overdose-related deaths in the 12-month period ending January 31, 2023, at a rate of 300 deaths per day. [5]
From 2011 to 2021, prescription opioid deaths per year remained stable, while synthetic opioid deaths per year increased from 2,600 overdoses to 70,601. [22] Since 2018, fentanyl and its analogues have been responsible for most drug overdose deaths in the United States, causing over 71,238 deaths in 2021.
Nearly 20,000 people were murdered by guns last year, and another 40,000 injured. ... the United States ranked 28 th among the world’s highest rates of gun death, with 4.43 per 100,000 people ...
More than 71,000 people died in the U.S. of overdoses caused by synthetic opioids — primarily fentanyl — in 2021, an increase of more than 23% from the previous year.
By 2017, there were 1,473 deaths in British Columbia and 3,996 deaths in Canada as a whole. [56] Between 2016 and 2022 Canada saw a two and a half fold increase in the per capita rate of opioid related deaths, reaching 20.3 per 100,000 population per year, with 1,904 deaths reported in the first 3 months of 2023 alone. [57]
Newly released child death data from 2021 show fewer youths are dying in Kansas, but there has been an increase in gun deaths and fentanyl deaths.