{"id":6133,"date":"2021-10-13T14:55:01","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T18:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=6133"},"modified":"2021-10-13T14:55:01","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T18:55:01","slug":"monthly-provisional-drug-overdose-counts-through-march-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2021\/10\/13\/6133\/","title":{"rendered":"Monthly Provisional Drug Overdose Counts through March 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6135\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/11\/march2021_drugs.png\" alt=\"March2021_Drugs\" width=\"447\" height=\"174\"><\/p>\n<p>NCHS has released the next set of monthly provisional drug overdose death counts.&nbsp; The monthly counts are released under the Vital Statistics Rapid Release program as an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nvss\/vsrr\/drug-overdose-data.htm\">interactive data visualization<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Findings:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Provisional data show that the predicted number of drug overdose deaths in the United States showed an increase of 30.8% from the 12 months ending in March 2020 to the 12 months ending in March 2021, from 75,798 to 99,106.<\/li>\n<li>The predicted number of opioid-involved drug overdose deaths in the United States for the 12-month period ending in March 2021 (74,724) increased from 54,017 in the previous year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NCHS has released the next set of monthly provisional drug overdose death counts.&nbsp; The monthly counts are released under the Vital Statistics Rapid Release program as an&nbsp;interactive data visualization. Findings: Provisional data show that the predicted number of drug overdose deaths in the United States showed an increase of 30.8% from the 12 months ending<\/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\/6133"}],"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=6133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}