Urban-Rural Differences in Drug Overdose Death Rates, 1999-2019
2021
This data brief from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention outlines the differences in drug overdose rates between urban and rural locales. Drug overdose deaths have continued to rise in the United States. For a significant portion of the opioid epidemic, opioid death rates in rural areas were higher than in urban areas. However, there has been a substantial spike in the death rates in metropolitan counties in recent years, attributable primarily to overdoses from synthetic opioids. This data brief provides an analysis of the death rates from opioid and stimulant overdoses, as well as provides an in-depth picture of the state of the opioid epidemic over time.
Urban-Rural Differences in Drug Overdose Death Rates, 1999-2019
Source:
Hedegaard H, Spencer M. Urban-Rural Differences in Drug Overdose Death Rates, 1999-2019. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: National Center for Health Statistics 2021; 403: 1-8. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db403.htm.