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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 ...
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 107,735 Americans died between August 2021 and August 2022 from drug poisonings, with 66% of those deaths involving synthetic opioids ...
The CDC presumes that a large proportion of the increase in deaths is due to illegally-made fentanyl; as the statistics on overdose deaths (as of 2015) do not distinguish pharmaceutical fentanyl from illegally-made fentanyl, the actual death rate could, therefore, be much higher than reported. [143]
Fentanyl exposure and kids represented by a photo of a child and colorful pills on a red background. Fentanyl has made headlines for years, with the narcotic being blamed for the deaths of Prince ...
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. [24] 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.
And just this month, the FBI seized more than 200 pounds of drugs, including 280,000 Percocet pills and 20 pounds of pink heart-shaped pills both believed to contain fentanyl.
The UN gives a figure of 300,000 deaths per year in the world through drug overdose. 1,015,060 US residents died from drug overdoses from 1968 to 2019. 22 people out of every 100,000 died from drug overdoses in 2019 in the US. [25] From 1999 to Feb 2019 in the United States, more than 770,000 people have died from drug overdoses. [26]
Fentanyl alone accounted for 648 overdose deaths in Marion County in 2022, making up nearly 81% of total drug intoxication deaths that year. More: 2 people die per day in Indianapolis from ODs ...