U.S. Surveillance Report of Drug-Related Risks and Outcomes
2019
This report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the third annual surveillance report summarizing the most recent data at the national level for opioid prescribing patterns, drug use, nonfatal, overdoses, and fatal overdoses related to the drug overdose epidemic in the United States. It includes data from the 2017, 2018, and 2019 National Survey on Drug Use and Health to reflect changes in question wording and age categories in the survey. The report found that while age-adjusted drug overdose deaths have increased significantly over the past two decades, mortality estimates through February 2019 suggested slight decreases in drug overdose deaths since 2017. While the burden of the overdose epidemic is still high, the data showed that rates of opioid prescriptions filled in 2018 continued to decrease since 2012. The West region of the United States experienced the highest rates of hospitalizations and emergency department visits for suspected methamphetamine poisonings. This report is intended to be a resource for people who are addressing the opioid crisis, members of the public who want to be informed with recent data, and people who are interested in developing innovative solutions to address it.
U.S. Surveillance Report of Drug-Related Risks and Outcomes
Source:
Annual Surveillance Report of Drug-Related Risks and Outcomes — United States 2019. Presentation. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2019. https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/pdf/pubs/2019-cdc-drug-surveillance-report.pdf.