In 2007, approximately 27,000 unintentional drug overdose deaths occurred in the United States, one death every 19 minutes. Prescription drug abuse is the fastest growing drug problem in the United States. The increase in unintentional drug overdose death rates in recent years (Figure) has been ...
Provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that about 93,000 people died from drug overdoses in 2020. This is an increase of 29.4% from the 72,151 deaths predicted for 2019, according to the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics, which released ...
Nearly 108,000 Americans died ofdrug overdosesin 2022, according to final federal figures released Thursday by theCenters for Disease Control and Prevention. Over the last two decades, the number of U.S. overdose deaths has risen almost every year and continued to break annual records — making...
New provisional CDC data published Wednesday shows drug overdose deaths in the U.S. fell from 2022 to 2023, marking the first annual decline in five years. May 15, 2024 Additional Live Streams Live ABC News Live Live Pam Bondi confirmation hearing for Attorney General Live Marco Rubio confirmat...
This is a 3% decrease from the estimated 111,029 overdose deaths that occurred in 2022 and the first annual decrease in drug overdose deaths since 2018. MORE: 4 dead, more than 50 suspected drug overdoses in Austin 'outbreak': Officials ...
NEW YORK, May 12 (Xinhua) -- Drug overdose deaths rose 15 percent in U.S. President Joe Biden's first year in office, according to new data published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). More than 107,000 people in the United States died in 2021 from drug...
The rate of drug overdose deaths has slowed from record-high levels, according to provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC estimated that there have been 107,735 predicted overdose deaths in the 12-month period that ended on July 2022. If the numbers ...
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If this increased rate for drug overdose deaths holds, the United States is on track to reach a new all-time record for overdose fatalities within a calendar year. Most states experienced increases in the rate of overdose deaths during the first quarter of 2020 compared with the same period ...
Fentanyl continues to drive the majority of overdose deaths in the country.May 11, 2022, 4:04 PM UTC By Berkeley Lovelace Jr. More than 107,600 Americans died from drug overdoses last year, the highest annual death toll on record, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said ...