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Drug Overdose Deaths
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| Name | Drug Overdose Deaths |
| Summary | Number of deaths and death rates from opioid overdose and/or poisining |
| Additional Background | This database reports the number of deaths and death rates due to drug overdoses. Values of one to nine for any state or county are suppressed to protect privacy.
A single person's death may list up to 20 causes. Accordingly, the sum of of all deaths per cause may exceed the actual number of deaths in the population. Similarly, for this database, a single reported death can be due to multiple drugs. As a specific example, the reported number of deaths from all opioids may be smaller than the manual addition of deaths from all opioid categories.
Categories include deaths and death rates from all drugs and from opioids. Opioid deaths include the following based on Multiple Causes of Death (MCD-10) codes: opium (T40.0), heroin (T40.1), other opioids (T40.2), methadone (T40.3), other synthetic narcotics (T40.4), other and unspecified narcotics (T40.6). The category "All opioids" reflects the sum of opium, heroin, other opioids, methadone, and other synthetic narcotics. See MCD for additional details on causes of death categories. All drugs includes MCD-10 codes T40.0-T40.9. The category “All drugs” explicitly excludes alcohol.
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| Geographic Coverage | U.S., States, Counties |
| Periodicity | Annually |
| Series Begins/Ends | 1999 - 2022 |
| Data Source | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) |
| Database | Drug Overdose Deaths |
| Summary | Number of deaths and death rates from opioid overdose and/or poisining |
| Geographic Coverage | U.S., States, Counties |
| Series Begins/Ends | 1999 - 2022 |
| Periodicity | Annually |
| Derived From | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) |
| New Database added | Sep. 16, 2024 |
| Estimated next update | Dec. 03, 2024 |
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This database reports the number of deaths and death rates due to drug overdoses. Values of one to nine for any state or county are suppressed to protect privacy.
A single person's death may list up to 20 causes. Accordingly, the sum of of all deaths per cause may exceed the actual number of deaths in the population. Similarly, for this database, a single reported death can be due to multiple drugs. As a specific example, the reported number of deaths from all opioids may be smaller than the manual addition of deaths from all opioid categories.
Categories include deaths and death rates from all drugs and from opioids. Opioid deaths include the following based on Multiple Causes of Death (MCD-10) codes: opium (T40.0), heroin (T40.1), other opioids (T40.2), methadone (T40.3), other synthetic narcotics (T40.4), other and unspecified narcotics (T40.6). The category "All opioids" reflects the sum of opium, heroin, other opioids, methadone, and other synthetic narcotics. See MCD for additional details on causes of death categories. All drugs includes MCD-10 codes T40.0-T40.9. The category “All drugs” explicitly excludes alcohol.
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