CDC Data Portal: Drug Overdose Deaths and Opioid-Involved Deaths
2024
This data portal hosted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention depicts how drug overdose deaths and opioid-involved deaths continue to increase in the United States; overdose deaths from opioids have increased by a factor of six since 1999. Opioids are a drug class that contains heroin as well as prescription pain relievers such as oxycodone, hydrocodone, morphine, codeine, fentanyl, and others; these substances interact with specific brain receptors to reduce the intensity of pain. Deaths from drug overdoses are up within nearly all population groups—men and women, all races, and nearly all adult age cohorts—and opioids are involved in more than 81% of overdose deaths as of 2022.
This portal offers data about drug overdose rates for different types of opioids, prescription rates, and encounters with the highly potent fentanyl, which is increasingly being mixed with heroin and prescription opioids and has contributed to this dramatic rise in overdose deaths. The portal also offers information about overdose prevention, pain management guidance for health care providers and individuals, evidence-based strategies for states seeking to curb the opioid epidemic, and more.
CDC Data Portal: Drug Overdose Deaths and Opioid-Involved Deaths
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CDC Data Portal: Drug Overdose Deaths and Opioid-Involved Deaths. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/dashboards/index.html.