United States drug overdose death rates and totals over time
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The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has data on drug overdose death rates and totals. Around 1,106,900 US residents died from drug overdoses from 1968 to 2020, around 932,400 from 1999 through 2020 and around 91,800 in 2020. Of every 100,000 people in 2020 in the US, drugs killed 28. Opioids were involved in around 80,400 of the around 106,700 deaths in 2021. Synthetic opioids other than methadone (primarily fentanyl) were involved with 70,601 deaths in 2021. Around 111,000 people died in 2022.[3][4][5][6][7]
Around 107,500 people died in the 12-month period ending December 31, 2023, at a rate of 295 deaths per day. That is 32.1 deaths per 100,000 US residents, using the population at the midpoint of that period.[3][4]