Details:

Corporate Authors:
National Center For Health Statistics (U.S.)
Description:
In recent years, the rate of poisoning deaths in the United States has been on the rise. Drugs – both legal and illegal – cause the vast majority of poisoning deaths.

NCHS uses the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) to monitor deaths due to drug poisoning. The NVSS collects and compiles mortality information from death certificates in all 50 States and the District of Columbia. Policymakers and public health professionals use the NVSS data to design and direct program and policy intervention efforts at the national, state, and local levels.

NCHS identifies the number of drug poisoning deaths from statements about the underlying cause of death on death certificates. Drug poisoning deaths can result from unintentional or intentional overdoses of a drug, being given the wrong drug, taking the wrong drug in error, or taking a drug inadvertently.


Subject:
[+]
Drug Overdose
Poisoning/mortality
Prescription Drugs/poisoning
Statistics As Topic
Street Drugs/poisoning
Vital Statistics

Series:
NCHS fact sheet
Document Type:
Pamphlet (or booklet)
Name as Subject:
National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.) ; National Vital Statistics System ; National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.) ; National Vital Statistics System
National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.) ; National Vital Statistics System ; National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.) ; National Vital Statistics System Less -
Genre:
Fact Sheet
Place as Subject:
United States
Collection(s):
Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library collection
Main Document Checksum:
[+]
urn:sha256:265f40048b6a597653d53258c0eaf58d97545a60db53152f0b5e159a8f34cc27
File Type:

Supporting Files

• No Additional Files

More +