CDC: Dramatic increase in overdose deaths since the pandemic

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CDC: Dramatic increase in overdose deaths since the pandemic
These deaths were happening during a time when covid-19 forced serious changes in our lives.
Author: Paul Dudley / Eyewitness News
Published: 4:29 PM CST November 13, 2021
Updated: 4:32 PM CST November 13, 2021


NEW ORLEANS — We are getting a chance to see numbers from the CDC show a dramatic increase in the amount of drug overdose deaths and it is a new high for this country.

More than 96,000 people died in the U.S. during a 12-month period ending in March 2021. That’s an increase of nearly 30% from March 2020.

These deaths were happening during a time when covid-19 forced serious changes in our lives...

 

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Drug overdose deaths top 100,000 annually for the first time, driven by fentanyl, CDC data show
By Deidre McPhillips, CNN
Updated 10:07 AM ET, Wed November 17, 2021

(CNN)America's drug epidemic is the deadliest it has ever been, new federal data suggests.
More than 100,000 people died of drug overdoses in the United States during the 12-month period ending April 2021, according to provisional data published Wednesday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
That's a new record high, with overdose deaths jumping 28.5% from the same period a year earlier.

Opioids continue to be the driving cause of drug overdose deaths. Synthetic opioids, primarily fentanyl, caused nearly two-thirds (64%) of all drug overdose deaths in the 12-month period ending April 2021, up 49% from the year before, the CDC's 's National Center for Health Statistics found.

The Covid-19 pandemic and the rise in use of fentanyl have both been key contributors to the rising overdose death toll, experts say.

The latest provisional data on drug overdose deaths captures those occurring in May 2020 through April 2021. Covid-19 killed about 509,000 people in that same timeframe, according to data from Johns Hopkins University...




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