{"id":6522,"date":"2022-07-22T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=6522"},"modified":"2022-07-22T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T16:00:00","slug":"quickstats-age-adjusted-drug-overdose-death-rates-among-workers-aged-16-64-years-in-usual-occupation-groups-with-the-highest-drug-overdose-death-rates-national-vital-stati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2022\/07\/22\/6522\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats:\u00a0Age-Adjusted Drug Overdose Death Rates Among Workers Aged 16\u201364 Years in Usual Occupation\u00a0Groups with the Highest Drug Overdose Death Rates \u2014 National Vital Statistics System, United States,\u00a02020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/figures\/mm7129a5-F.gif?_=22605\" alt=\"\" width=\"466\" height=\"360\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2020, the age-adjusted drug overdose death rate among workers with paid, civilian usual occupations was 42.1 deaths per 100,000. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drug overdose death rates were highest among workers in the following occupations: construction and extraction (162.6); food preparation and serving related (117.9); personal care and service (74.0); transportation and material moving (70.7); building and grounds cleaning and maintenance (70.0); and installation, maintenance, and repair (69.9).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0National Vital Statistics System, Mortality Data.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/deaths.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/deaths.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/mm7129a5.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/mm7129a5.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2020, the age-adjusted drug overdose death rate among workers with paid, civilian usual occupations was 42.1 deaths per 100,000. Drug overdose death rates were highest among workers in the following occupations: construction and extraction (162.6); food preparation and serving related (117.9); personal care and service (74.0); transportation and material moving (70.7); building and grounds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53755,63673,47317,53752,53751],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6522"}],"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=6522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}