{"id":4323,"date":"2018-10-17T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T16:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=4323"},"modified":"2018-10-17T12:00:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T16:00:05","slug":"provisional-number-of-drug-overdose-deaths-in-the-u-s-by-drug-or-drug-class-through-march-31-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2018\/10\/17\/4323\/","title":{"rendered":"Provisional Number of Drug Overdose Deaths in the U.S. by Drug or Drug Class, through March 31, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4324\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/11\/drugs_oct2018.png\" alt=\"DRUGS_OCT2018\" width=\"882\" height=\"770\" \/><em>SOURCE: National Vital Statistics System<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, October 17, 2018, NCHS released its latest monthly provisional estimates of drug overdose deaths in the United States in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nvss\/vsrr\/drug-overdose-data.htm\">web-only data visualization\u00a0dashboard<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0The latest data cover the\u00a0period April 1, 2017 through March 31, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The figure shown above illustrates the drug or drug class responsible for these overdose deaths.\u00a0 <strong>Opioids<\/strong> (any kind) accounted\u00a0for\u00a046,655 reported deaths over this period (Predicted number of deaths: 48,400);\u00a0 <strong>synthetic opioids<\/strong>, excluding methadone (and including <strong>Fentanyl<\/strong>) accounted for\u00a028,826 reported deaths (Predicted number of deaths: 30,051);\u00a0 <strong>Heroin<\/strong> accounted for 14,964 reported deaths (Predicted number of deaths: 15,424); <strong>Cocaine<\/strong> accounted for 14,205 reported deaths (Predicted number of deaths: 14,711); <strong>natural and semi-synthetic opioids (including oxycodone and other prescription opioids<\/strong>)\u00a0accounted for 13,866 reported deaths (Predicted number of deaths: 14,490); <strong>Psychostimulants<\/strong> with abuse potential (which include <strong>methamphetamine<\/strong>)\u00a0accounted for 10,767 reported deaths (Predicted number of deaths: 11,249); and <strong>Methadone<\/strong> accounted for 3,153 reported deaths (Predicted number of deaths: 3,286).<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit the data visualization gallery on the NCHS web site at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nvss\/vsrr\/drug-overdose-data.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nvss\/vsrr\/drug-overdose-data.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOURCE: National Vital Statistics System. On Wednesday, October 17, 2018, NCHS released its latest monthly provisional estimates of drug overdose deaths in the United States in a web-only data visualization\u00a0dashboard.\u00a0\u00a0The latest data cover the\u00a0period April 1, 2017 through March 31, 2018. The figure shown above illustrates the drug or drug class responsible for these overdose<\/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\/4323"}],"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=4323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}