Drug Overdose Deaths in the U.S. Top 100,000 Annually
Posted on byProvisional data from NCHS indicate that there were an estimated 100,306 drug overdose deaths in the United States during 12-month period ending in April 2021, an increase of 28.5% from the 78,056 deaths during the same period the year before.
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Read more here:
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2021/20211117.htm
The interactive web dashboard is available at: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/drug-overdose-data.htm
Page last reviewed: November 17, 2021
Page last updated: November 17, 2021
Content source:
CDC, National Center for Health Statistics