Drug overdoses killed 63,632 Americans in 2016. Nearly two-thirds of these deaths involved a prescription or an illicit opioid.
Overdose deaths increased in every category researched for men and women, ages 15 and older, all races and ethnicities and across all levels of urbanization.
Death rates from overdoses involving synthetic opioids increased in 21 states, with 10 states doubling their rates from 2015 to 2016.
The highest death rates from synthetic opioids were in the following states:
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New Hampshire
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Massachusetts
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West Virginia
Fourteen states had significant increases in death rates involving heroin. The highest being:
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Ohio
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Washington D.C.
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West Virginia
Eight states had significant increases in death rates involving prescription opioids. The highest being:
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Maine
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Maryland
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Utah
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West Virginia
Sixteen states had significant increases in death rates involving cocaine. The highest being:
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Ohio
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Rhode Island
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Washington D.C.
More than 72,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2017, including illicit drugs and prescription opioids. This is a two-fold increase in a decade.
These statistics are alarming.
The most staggering increase occurred among deaths related to fentanyl and fentanyl analogs (synthetic opioids), which accounted for nearly 30,000 overdose deaths.
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