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This report presents rates of drug overdose deaths from the National Vital Statistics System over a 20-year period by demographic group and by the type of drugs involved (specifically, opioids and stimulants), with a focus on changes from 2021 to 2022. Keywords: opioids, heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, National Vital Statistics System, Mortality.
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. Around 93,700 died in 2020. Opioids were involved in around 80,400 of the around 109,200 deaths in 2021.
In 2021, 106,699 drug overdose deaths occurred, resulting in an age-adjusted rate of 32.4 per 100,000 standard population in the United States. Adults aged 65 and over had the largest percentage increase in rates from 2020 through 2021.
Provisional data show that the reported number of drug overdose deaths occurring in the United States decreased by 2% from the 12 months ending in December 2021 to the 12 months ending in December 2022, from 107,573 to 105,452.
This report presents rates of drug overdose deaths from the National Vital Statistics System over a 20-year period by demographic group and by the type of drugs involved, with a focus on changes from 2021 to 2022.
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...
Over 106,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2021, a staggering number that marks the highest annual total on record. Synthetic opioids, primarily fentanyl, were involved in over 70,000 of those overdose deaths. Black Americans saw a 44% increase in overdose deaths in just one year.
A study released Thursday by the National Center for Health Statistics, a division of the CDC, found that 932,364 people died in the U.S. from fatal overdoses from 1999 through 2020. Separate...
Drug Overdose Deaths: Facts and Figures. See facts and figures on overdose deaths as reported by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Trends & Statistics. Monitoring the Future. Since 1975 the MTF survey has measured drug and alcohol use and related attitudes among adolescent students nationwide. Trends & Statistics.
Provisional data from CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics indicate there were an estimated 107,543 drug overdose deaths in the United States during 2023—a decrease of 3% from the 111,029 deaths estimated in 2022. This is the first annual decrease in drug overdose deaths since 2018.