Drug overdose deaths in the United States fell 17% between July 2023 and July 2024, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a new report released Wednesday. Since 2021, over 100,000 people have died of overdoses each year in the United States. A record number of overdose ...
In 2023, over 5,500 people died from choking in the United States. This was the second-highest number recorded over the last 70 years.
While the majority of overdose deaths in 2023 were due to synthetic opioids, such as fentanyl, there was a decrease from 2022. An estimated 76,226 deaths were linked to synthetic opioids in 2022 compared to 74,702 deaths in 2023. Drug Overdose Deaths in the...
United StatesPopulation healthLife expectancyThe U.S. is exceptional among high-income countries for poor survival outcomes. Understanding the distribution of excess deaths by age, sex, and cause of death, is essential for bringing U.S. mortality in line with international peers. We use 2016 ...
Unlike others who found success in the United States and stayed, Lightfoot returned to his homeland, a matter of pride in Canada, where he wound up on a postage stamp. And even into his 70s he was still touring. "When you walk out in front of a crowd, you really got to give it ev...
The dynamics of traffic-related fatalities in the United States have undergone significant changes recently. In 2023, motor vehicle crashes led to approximately 40,999 deaths—a minor decrease from the previous year’s count of 40,990 fatalities—representing a dip of 3.6% in terms of million ve...
Rate of Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System Meanwhile, drugs that used to make up the majority of overdose deaths -- heroin and oxycodone -- saw declines in their rates of death. Rates of heroin overdose fatalities fe...
Rates for deaths involving cocaine decreased in three states and increased in 13. West Virginia (81.9 deaths per 100,000), the District of Columbia (60.7), Delaware (53), Tennessee (52.3), and Louisiana (50.6) had the highest OD death rates in the U.S. in 2023, re...
In 2022, there were 48,204 fatalities caused by injuries related to firearms in the United States, a slight decrease from the previous year.
The number of drug overdose deaths in the United States is still increasing every month, according to new data, but the pace appears to be slowing.