{"id":3394,"date":"2017-01-09T10:32:53","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T15:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=3394"},"modified":"2017-01-09T10:32:53","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T15:32:53","slug":"quickstats-rates-of-drug-overdose-deaths-involving-heroin-by-selected-age-groups-united-states-2006-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2017\/01\/09\/3394\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Rates of Drug Overdose Deaths Involving Heroin by Selected Age Groups \u2014 United States, 2006\u20132015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/65\/wr\/mm6552a12.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/65\/wr\/figures\/m6552qsf.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"386\" height=\"239\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The rate of drug overdose deaths involving heroin increased slightly during 2006\u20132010 but more than tripled during 2010\u20132015 for all age groups shown.<\/p>\n<p>During 2010\u20132015, the rates increased from 1.2 to 3.8 per 100,000 for persons aged 15\u201324 years, from 2.2 to 9.7 for persons aged 25\u201334 years, from 1.6 to 7.4 for persons aged 35\u201344 years, from 1.4 to 5.6 for persons aged 45\u201354 years, and from 0.7 to 3.4 for persons aged 55\u201364 years.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, the rate of drug overdose deaths involving heroin was highest for persons aged 25\u201334.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/65\/wr\/mm6552a12.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/65\/wr\/mm6552a12.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rate of drug overdose deaths involving heroin increased slightly during 2006\u20132010 but more than tripled during 2010\u20132015 for all age groups shown. During 2010\u20132015, the rates increased from 1.2 to 3.8 per 100,000 for persons aged 15\u201324 years, from 2.2 to 9.7 for persons aged 25\u201334 years, from 1.6 to 7.4 for persons aged<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62286,58,53752],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394"}],"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=3394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}