According to preliminary federal data released on Wednesday~, about 110,000 people in the United States died from drug overdoses last year. While this is a shocking number, it marked a plateau after two years of significant growth.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention anticipated that 109,179 individuals would have died in 2021, therefore the preliminary count of 109,680 overdose deaths was just little higher. Both that year and the year before, the number of overdose deaths had increased dramatically, rising by around 17 percent in 2021 and 30 percent in 2020.
The White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy director, Dr. Rahul Gupta, declared in a statement on Wednesday that the Biden administration’s overdose prevention measures were effective. “We’ve expanded treatment to millions of Americans, we’re improving access to naloxone to reverse overdoses, and we’re attacking the illicit fentanyl supply chain at every choke point,” he said.
Though fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that is frequently combined with stimulants and other drugs and can be undetected before a drug sample is taken, is consumed, the recently disclosed data provided the most recent evidence of the disastrous effects of this drug. According to the C.D.C., synthetic opioids were a factor in nearly 75,000 overdose deaths last year.
According to preliminary federal data released on Wednesday, about 110,000 people in the United States died from drug overdoses last year. While this is a shocking number, it marked a plateau after two years of significant growth.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention anticipated that 109,179 individuals would have died in 2021, therefore the preliminary count of 109,680 overdose deaths was just little higher. Both that year and the year before, the number of overdose deaths had increased dramatically, rising by around 17 percent in 2021 and 30 percent in 2020.
The White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy director, Dr. Rahul Gupta, declared in a statement on Wednesday that the Biden administration’s overdose prevention measures were effective. “We’ve expanded treatment to millions of Americans, we’re improving access to naloxone to reverse overdoses, and we’re attacking the illicit fentanyl supply chain at every choke point,” he said. Though fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that is frequently combined with stimulants and other drugs and can be undetected before a drug sample is taken, is consumed, the recently disclosed data provided the most recent evidence of the disastrous effects of this drug. According to the C.D.C., synthetic opioids were a factor in nearly 75,000 overdose deaths last year.
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