{"id":7177,"date":"2022-11-25T11:00:45","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T11:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/?p=7177"},"modified":"2022-11-22T21:16:23","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T21:16:23","slug":"quickstats-drug-overdose-death-rates-among-persons-aged-%e2%89%a515-years-by-age-group-and-urban-rural-status-national-vital-statistics-system-united-states-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2022\/11\/25\/7177\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Drug Overdose Death Rates Among Persons Aged \u226515 Years, by Age Group and Urban-Rural Status \u2014 National Vital Statistics System, United States, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/11\/mm7147a3-F.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-7178\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/11\/mm7147a3-F-300x222.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"317\" height=\"234\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During 2020, death rates for drug overdose causes were higher in urban areas than in rural areas for those aged 15\u201324 years (17.2 compared with 13.3), 45\u201364 years (43.4 compared with 33.5), and \u226565 years (10.0 compared with 6.2).<\/p>\n<p>Among adults aged 25\u201344, drug overdose death rates were not significantly different between urban and rural areas (50.3 compared with 51.6).<\/p>\n<p>Drug overdose death rates were lower for adults aged \u226565 years compared with other age groups in both urban and rural areas.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b>\u00a0National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System, Mortality Data, 2020 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nvss\/deaths.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nvss\/deaths.htm<\/a>); CDC Wonder online database.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wonder.cdc.gov\/ucd-icd10.html\">https:\/\/wonder.cdc.gov\/ucd-icd10.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/mm7147a3.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/mm7147a3.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During 2020, death rates for drug overdose causes were higher in urban areas than in rural areas for those aged 15\u201324 years (17.2 compared with 13.3), 45\u201364 years (43.4 compared with 33.5), and \u226565 years (10.0 compared with 6.2). Among adults aged 25\u201344, drug overdose death rates were not significantly different between urban and rural<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":277,"featured_media":7178,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49481,53755,47317,57495,63801,53751],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7177"}],"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\/277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7177"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7180,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7177\/revisions\/7180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}