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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.
Most overdose deaths in the U.S. involve opioids, but a new CDC report shows methamphetamine has become the biggest killer in 19 western states.
Nationwide, most deaths still involve opioid drugs like fentanyl and heroin. Fentanyl was involved in 39% of the deaths that year, followed by heroin, 23%, and cocaine, 21%. Meth is most common ...
In the US around 107,500 people died in the 12-month period ending August 31, 2022, at a rate of 294 deaths per day. [27] 70,630 people died from drug overdoses in 2019. [28] The U.S. drug overdose death rate has gone from 2.5 per 100,000 people in 1968 to 21.5 per 100,000 in 2019. [25]
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 an annual report released by regional officials Dec. 20, fentanyl and methamphetamine drove a record number of homeless deaths last year in Oregon's Multnomah County, home to Portland.
They have higher rates of disease, higher death rates, and a lack of medical coverage. [1] These health issues are matched by illegal drug abuse; abuse levels are higher than any other demographic group in the United States. Methamphetamine abuse on reservations was a particular area of concern for tribal and federal governments in the 2000s. [2]
A toxicology report showed Eddens had illegal drugs in his system at the time of his death. The drugs were "methamphetamine with its metabolite (amphetamine) and delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol."