More than 107,000 Americans died of drug overdoses last year, another tragic record in the nation’s escalating overdose epidemic, the CDC said in estimates released Wednesday
Hypodermic needle and syringe in Fairview on Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018. Alaska is battling an opioid crisis.
The provisional 2021 total translates to roughly one U.S. overdose death every 5 minutes. It marked a 15% increase from the previous record, set the year before. The CDC reviews death certificates and then makes an estimate to account for delayed and incomplete reporting. U.S. overdose deaths have risen most years for more than two decades. The increase began in the 1990s with overdoses involving opioid painkillers, followed by waves of deaths led by other opioids like heroin and - most recently - illicit fentanyl.
Overdose deaths are often attributed to more than one drug. Some people take multiple drugs and inexpensive fentanyl has been increasingly cut into other drugs, often without the buyers’ knowledge, officials say.
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