NCHS data on drug-overdose deaths [June 2021]

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.). Office of of Planning, Budget, and Legislation.
• Description:
  NCHS uses the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) to monitor deaths due to drug overdose. NVSS collects mortality information from death certificates in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. NCHS identifies the number of drug overdose deaths using the underlying cause-of-death information from death certificates. Multiple causes of death are used to identify deaths involving specific drugs. In 2019, approximately 6% of death certificates for drug overdose deaths lacked information on the specific drugs involved.
  
  For more information about NCHS, visit https://www.cdc.gov/nchs.
  
  For more information about NVSS, visit https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss.htm.
  
  CS324152
  
  factsheet-drug-deaths.pdf
  
  
• Content Notes:
  About NCHS
  
  NCHS drug overdose data -- Recent findings -- Who is most at risk? -- Challenges and future opportunities.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Drug Overdose/ethnology Drug Overdose/mortality
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Topic:
  Health Statistics
• Pages in Document:
  2 pdf pages
• Collection(s):
  National Center for Health Statistics
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/106507/cdc_106507_DS1.pdf
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