{"id":6512,"date":"2022-07-13T13:36:50","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T17:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=6512"},"modified":"2022-07-13T13:36:50","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T17:36:50","slug":"update-to-provisional-drug-overdose-deaths-from-12-months-ending-in-february-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2022\/07\/13\/6512\/","title":{"rendered":"Update to Provisional Drug Overdose Deaths from 12 months ending in February 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\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\/opioids_pills_needle.jpg?w=724\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6472\" width=\"349\" height=\"233\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nvss\/vsrr\/drug-overdose-data.htm\">Provisional data<\/a> show that the predicted number of drug overdose deaths showed an increase of almost 12% from the 12 months ending in February 2021 to the 12 months ending in February 2022, from 97,109 to 108,642. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The predicted number of opioid-involved drug overdose deaths in the United States for the 12-month period ending in February 2022 (81,857) increased from 72,930 in the previous year. Recent trends may be partially due to incomplete data. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The predicted number of drug overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids (excluding methadone; T40.4), psychostimulants with abuse potential (T43.6), and cocaine (T40.5) continued to increase compared to the previous year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Provisional data show that the predicted number of drug overdose deaths showed an increase of almost 12% from the 12 months ending in February 2021 to the 12 months ending in February 2022, from 97,109 to 108,642. The predicted number of opioid-involved drug overdose deaths in the United States for the 12-month period ending in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53755,47317,59549,53756,53751],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6512"}],"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=6512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}