{"id":4172,"date":"2018-04-02T09:15:13","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T13:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=4172"},"modified":"2018-04-02T09:15:13","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T13:15:13","slug":"quickstats-age-adjusted-death-rates-for-drug-overdose-by-race-ethnicity-national-vital-statistics-system-united-states-2015-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2018\/04\/02\/4172\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Age-Adjusted Death Rates for Drug Overdose by Race\/Ethnicity \u2014 National Vital Statistics System, United States, 2015\u20132016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/67\/wr\/mm6712a9.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/67\/wr\/figures\/mm6712a9-F.gif\" width=\"449\" height=\"208\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During 2015\u20132016, the age-adjusted death rates from drug overdose for the total population increased from 16.3 per 100,000 standard population to 19.8 (21.5%).<\/p>\n<p>The rate increased from 21.1 to 25.3 (19.9%) for non-Hispanic whites, from 12.2 to 17.1 (40.2%) for non-Hispanic blacks, and from 7.7 to 9.5 (23.4%) for Hispanics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong>National Vital Statistics System, Underlying cause of death data, 1999\u20132016.\u00a0<a class=\"tp-link-policy\" href=\"https:\/\/wonder.cdc.gov\/ucd-icd10.html\">https:\/\/wonder.cdc.gov\/ucd-icd10.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/67\/wr\/mm6712a9.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/67\/wr\/mm6712a9.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During 2015\u20132016, the age-adjusted death rates from drug overdose for the total population increased from 16.3 per 100,000 standard population to 19.8 (21.5%). The rate increased from 21.1 to 25.3 (19.9%) for non-Hispanic whites, from 12.2 to 17.1 (40.2%) for non-Hispanic blacks, and from 7.7 to 9.5 (23.4%) for Hispanics. Source:\u00a0National Vital Statistics System, Underlying<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49481,62286,62288,47317,53747,53751],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172"}],"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=4172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}