{"id":6218,"date":"2021-11-17T13:52:07","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T18:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=6218"},"modified":"2021-11-17T13:52:07","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T18:52:07","slug":"drug-overdose-deaths-in-the-u-s-top-100000-annually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2021\/11\/17\/6218\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug Overdose Deaths in the U.S. Top 100,000 Annually"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Provisional data from NCHS indicate that there were an estimated 100,306 drug overdose deaths in the United States during 12-month period ending in April 2021, an increase of 28.5% from the 78,056 deaths during the same period the year before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/11\/drugoverdose_apr2021-1.png?w=1001\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6224\" width=\"506\" height=\"202\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read more here:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/pressroom\/nchs_press_releases\/2021\/20211117.htm\">\/nchs\/pressroom\/nchs_press_releases\/2021\/20211117.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The interactive web dashboard is available at:<\/strong> <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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Provisional data from NCHS indicate that there were an estimated 100,306 drug overdose deaths in the United States during 12-month period ending in April 2021, an increase of 28.5% from the 78,056 deaths during the same period the year before. Read more here: https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/pressroom\/nchs_press_releases\/2021\/20211117.htm The interactive web dashboard is available at: https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nvss\/vsrr\/drug-overdose-data.htm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49481,53755,47317,59549,53756,53751],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6218"}],"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=6218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}