{"id":2018,"date":"2014-02-05T13:43:56","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T16:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=2018"},"modified":"2023-12-18T21:36:19","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T21:36:19","slug":"heroin-related-deaths-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2014\/02\/05\/2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Heroin-Related Deaths in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman has sparked a great<br \/>\ndeal of interest in heroin overdose deaths in the U.S. The number of heroin<em>-related <\/em>deaths are available from the multiple cause of death option on the <a href=\"http:\/\/wonder.cdc.gov\/\">CDC WONDER database<\/a> using the T40.1 ICD Code,<em>&#8220;Poisoning by and adverse effect of heroin.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>However, this may not mean that the person died of heroin overdose because this code only picks up whether heroin is mentioned in the death certificate. In other words, someone may have died of a cocaine overdose or something else but had heroin in the system. With that said, here are our latest national numbers on heroin-related deaths in the U.S.:<\/p>\n<p>1999\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2,103<\/p>\n<p>2000\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1,999<\/p>\n<p>2001\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1,906<\/p>\n<p>2002\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2,219<\/p>\n<p>2003\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2,205<\/p>\n<p>2004\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2,009<\/p>\n<p>2005\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2,154<\/p>\n<p>2006\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2,192<\/p>\n<p>2007\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2,443<\/p>\n<p>2008\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 3,086<\/p>\n<p>2009\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 3,343<\/p>\n<p>2010\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 3,094<\/p>\n<p><strong>Total: 28,753<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A recent<a title=\"Drug Overdose Deaths\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/media\/releases\/2013\/p0220_drug_overdose_deaths.html.\">\u00a0press release <\/a>from the CDC also features some statistics on drug overdose deaths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman has sparked a great deal of interest in heroin overdose deaths in the U.S. The number of heroin-related deaths are available from the multiple cause of death option on the CDC WONDER database using the T40.1 ICD Code,&#8220;Poisoning by and adverse effect of heroin.&#8221; However, this may not<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7525,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions\/7525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}