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Increases in Drug and Opioid|Involved Overdose Deaths


Vital Statistics Rapid Release - Provisional Drug Overdose Data - CDC

State predicted drug overdose death counts differed by an average of 0.1% (ranging from 0.0 to 0.5%). National predicted counts for deaths involving opioids had ...

Drug Overdose Deaths: Facts and Figures

Fentanyl involvement in fatalities that also involved prescription opioid drugs has steadily increased since 2014. ... Drug Involved Overdose ...

Overdose Prevention Strategy - HHS.gov

Line graph chart showing the upward trends in U.S. drug overdose deaths from 1999 - 2022. Synthetic opioids excluding methadone overdose deaths increased 103- ...

Focus on Broadband and Opioids

There were approximately 69,000 opioid overdose deaths in 2020 (opens new window) and 82% involved synthetic opioids; and; Provisional data reflects that the ...

Continuing Crisis: Drug Overdose Deaths in New York

Drug overdose fatalities surged during the COVID-19 pandemic in New York State, with opioid-related overdose deaths increasing by 68% to nearly 5000 ...

Opioid Abuse - Georgia Attorney General's Office

Opioids, specifically fentanyl, appear to be driving these increases. From 2019 to 2022, fentanyl-involved overdose deaths in Georgia increased by 308 percent.

Opioid Overdose Risk Factors - Mass.gov

There are several factors that can increase a person's risk of overdosing. ... Fentanyl is responsible for the surge in opioid-related deaths seen in MA ...

Drug Overdose Dashboard - Fatal Overdoses | Missouri Department ...

This means that 1 out of 47 deaths statewide were attributed to an opioid-involved overdose. While prescription opioids and heroin once drove this epidemic, ...

Drug Overdose and Related Health Outcomes

2,490 drug overdose deaths among Virginians, a 5% decrease from 2021. • Almost eight out of 10 (79%) drug overdose deaths involving fentanyl, fentanyl analogs, ...

Opioid Epidemic | Maricopa County Attorney's Office, AZ

Since then, the rate of overdose deaths involving prescription opioids has increase 5-fold. ... From 1999 to 2017 more than 770,000 Americans have died from drug ...

Data and Reporting - Illinois Department of Public Health

Drug Overdose Deaths 2022 ... Opioid overdoses in Illinois increased 8.2% from 2021 to 2022. In 2022, there were 3,261 opioid overdose fatalities – more than ...

Texas Overdose Data to Action

The state's drug poisoning deaths increased more than 75% in the past five years. In 2021, the drug poisoning death rate was 15.8 deaths per 100,000 residents.

Operation Engage Philadelphia - DEA.gov

In 2022, there were 108,659 drug overdose deaths in the United States (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data). Synthetic opioids, primarily illicit ...

The Opioid Epidemic in the United States - SHADAC

Much like the United States as a whole, most of the 50 states have experienced measurable increases in drug and opioid overdose deaths since 2011. Just four ...

Opioid Data - | Washington State Department of Health - WA.gov

Since 2019 the annual number of opioid drug overdose deaths has nearly doubled, from 827 deaths in 2019 to 1619 in 2021. Evidence suggests that widespread ...

U.S. overdose deaths plummet, saving thousands of lives - NPR

After decades of devastating increases driven by fentanyl and other toxic street drugs, overdose deaths are dropping sharply in much of the ...

Preliminary data show a decrease in overdose deaths in 2023

Nonfatal overdoses involving opioids other than heroin (like fentanyl) increased by 11% (4,328 to 4,819 overdoses). “We have seen a decline in ...

Public Health Advisory: Fentanyl Increasingly Present in Overdose ...

The sharp increase in overdose deaths is not only impacting those who use opioids. Cocaine deaths involving synthetic opioids increased by 134 ...

Opioid Use Disorder - Psychiatry.org

In 2017, more than 72000 Americans died from drug overdoses, including illicit drugs and prescription opioids, a 2-fold increase in a decade.

Opioids and Substance Use - Mississippi State Department of Health

This epidemic continues today, driven by overdose deaths from synthetic opioids, particularly fentanyl. Properly prescribed, opioid medications and stimulants ...