{"id":5371,"date":"2020-12-16T12:58:50","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T17:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=5371"},"modified":"2020-12-16T12:58:50","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T17:58:50","slug":"overdose-deaths-jump-18-in-the-past-year-through-may-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2020\/12\/16\/5371\/","title":{"rendered":"Overdose Deaths Jump 18% in the Past Year (through May 2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The latest monthly drug overdose death data for the United States was released today, and the numbers paint a disturbing picture about the on-going drug crisis facing the country.\u00a0 According to these provisional data, there were an estimated 81,230 overdose deaths from June 2019 thru May of 2020 &#8211; a dramatic 18% increase from the <a>68,829 <\/a>deaths from the same period a year ago.\u00a0 After declining in 2018 \u2013 the first decline in 28 years \u2013 overdose deaths in the U.S. have increased at a rapid pace, beginning during the summer of 2019, and the increase has been growing more rapidly in recent months, coinciding with the on-set of the pandemic.\u00a0 Drug overdose deaths were up during this period in all but four U.S. states \u2013 New Hampshire, Nevada, Utah, and Idaho (which saw no change), and the biggest increases were observed in Louisiana, Iowa, Wyoming, and Maine.\u00a0 In some jurisdictions the increases were even greater.\u00a0 In Washington, D.C., for example, the increase in the past year was 60% &#8211; a much larger jump than in any individual state.\u00a0 There were over 10,000 more deaths nationwide during this period from opioid overdoses, particularly those involving fentanyl, as well as increases in deaths from cocaine and psychostimulants such as methamphetamine.\u00a0 Deaths from heroin, which were slightly lower in this most recent period, have leveled off in recent years.\u00a0 Below are some highlights from the release:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/11\/type-of-drug.png?w=885\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5370\" \/><figcaption><em>*Source: National Vital Statistics System, <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><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest monthly drug overdose death data for the United States was released today, and the numbers paint a disturbing picture about the on-going drug crisis facing the country.\u00a0 According to these provisional data, there were an estimated 81,230 overdose deaths from June 2019 thru May of 2020 &#8211; a dramatic 18% increase from the<\/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\/5371"}],"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=5371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}