Monthly Provisional Drug Overdose Counts through June 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 20.6% from the 12 months ending in June 2020 to the 12 months ending in June 2021, from 83,992 to 101,263. 

• The predicted number of opioid-involved drug overdose deaths in the United States for the 12-month period ending in June 2021 (76,002) increased from 61,475 in the previous year.