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[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 to 2020. Around 932,400 died from 1999 through 2020.
Many sources point to fentanyl as the leading cause of teen overdose death. According to a 2022 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association, between 2010 and 2021, the number of teenage deaths caused by black-market fentanyl and related synthetic substances increased more than twentyfold, from 38 to 884. [119]
2020 54 Club promoter Heroin Accidental [33] Lexii Alijai: 1998 2020 21 Rapper Fentanyl and alcohol Unknown [34] Howard Alk: 1930 1982 51 Filmmaker Heroin: Accidental Officially accidental though speculated suicide [35] [36] A. A. Allen: 1911 1970 59 Evangelist Alcohol Unknown [37] Chet Allen: 1939 1984 45 Child actor Antidepressants: Suicide [38]
Deaths from carfentanil rose by more than 700% in the past year, according to the same source — there were 29 deadly overdoses between January and June 2023, and 238 in that same time frame in 2024.
Drug overdose deaths jumped nearly 30% last year to a record 93,000, a stunning increase reflecting the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the nation’s opioid crisis and the alarming spread ...
Overdoses involving opioids killed more than 80,000 people in 2021, and nearly 88% of those deaths involved synthetic opioids, including fentanyl, according to the Centers for Disease Control and ...
Concerning the 2017 data in the charts below, deaths from the various drugs add up to more than 70,200 because multiple drugs are involved in many of the deaths. [2] According to the National Safety Council, the lifetime odds of dying from an overdose in the United States is 1 in 96. [68] Drug overdose deaths in the US per 100,000 people by state.
According to Pullen, a deadly dose is just 2 milligrams of fentanyl, the same amount pictured below on the tip of that pencil. Courtesy: DEA, 2mg, the amount on the tip of this pencil, can be ...