Earlier provisional dataestimated more than 109,000 overdose deaths in 2022, but provisional data includes all overdose deaths, while the final numbers are limited to U.S. residents. The CDC has not yet reported overdose numbers for 2023, although provisional data through the first 10 months of ...
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...
Drug overdose deaths are attributed as such by the CDC after investigations into the causes of death. These investigations can be lengthy. The provisional data breaks down the overdose deaths by the drugs involved in them. If a death involved two drugs, it is recorded in the death counts for...
Sherman said to keep bringing the number of drug overdose deaths down, it's important to keep scaling up interventions that work including making medications for opioid use disorder andsyringe service programsmore accessible.
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 ...
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 Holiday traffic along Ravenel Bridge in Charleston, SC Live Tracking holiday...
JAMA.2012;307(8):774-776. doi: FullText MMWR. 2012;61:10-13 1 figure omitted 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 ...
, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- Drug overdose deaths in the United States reached 72,000 in 2017, hitting a record high and surpassing the highest annual death totals from HIV, car crashes and guns, according to latest provisional estimates released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC)....
The CDC report, released Feb. 24, found thatdrug overdose deathshave risen among whites at a rate of about 7 percent each year, compared with 2 percent a year for blacks and Hispanics. The overdose death rate among whites in 2015 was nearly 3.5 times the rate it was in 1999. ...
according topreliminary datareleased last week by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) National Center for Health Statistics. The agency also estimates that 75 500 overdose deaths occurred in the 12-month period between March 2019 and March 2020,an increase of approxima...