The estimate eclipsed the previous high last year of about 72,000 drug overdose deaths, up by 29 percent.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reviewed death certificates for drug overdoses in 2020 and estimated over 93,000 occurred which translated to roughly 11 deaths every hour, the Associated Press reported.
The nation was already struggling with its worst overdose epidemic, but clearly"COVID has greatly exacerbated the crisis," he added. Jordan McGlashen died of a drug overdose in his Ypsilanti, Michigan, apartment last year. He was pronounced dead on May 6, the day before his 39th birthday.
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