Understanding the opioid overdose epidemic

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• Corporate Authors:
   National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (U.S.)
• Description:
  The number of drug overdose deaths increased by nearly 30% from 2019 to 2020 and has quintupled since 1999. Nearly 75% of the 91,799 drug overdose deaths in 2020 involved an opioid. From 2019 to 2020, there were significant changes in opioid-involved death rates:
  
  • Opioid-involved death rates increased by 38%.
  
  • Prescription opioid-involved death rates increased by 17%.
  
  • Heroin-involved death rates decreased by 7%.
  
  • Synthetic opioid-involved death rates (excluding methadone) increased by 56%1.
  
  
• Content Notes:
  The Three Waves of Opioid Overdose Deaths -- Combatting the Opioid Overdose Epidemic -- Resources.
• Subjects:
  Analgesics, Opioid/poisoning Attitude Of Health Personnel Drug Overdose Illicit Drugs Opioid-Related Disorders Opioid Epidemic Practice Patterns, Physicians' Pregnancy Social Stigma
• Document Type:
  Webpage
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:1af2e59e0c278c5bb8df047a856a7229533bf91fb5195a30a321937f19e7082f
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/119116/cdc_119116_DS1.pdf
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