Monthly Provisional Drug Overdose Counts through February 2021

NCHS has released the next set of monthly provisional drug overdose death counts.  The monthly counts are released under the Vital Statistics Rapid Release program as an interactive data visualization.

Findings: 

• Provisional data show that the predicted number of drug overdose deaths showed an increase of 30.4% from the 12 months ending in February 2020 to the 12 months ending in February 2021, from 74,234 to 96,801.
• The predicted number of opioid-involved drug overdose deaths in the United States for the 12-month period ending in February 2021 (72,689) increased from 52,712 in the previous year.