News Report | September 1, 2020
Fatal Drug Overdoses Up 6.6% Between January 2019 & January 2020
The number of predicted fatal drug overdoses rose by 6.6% between January 2019 and January 2020, according to national provisional counts in the United States released in July 2020. There were 68,211 predicted deaths during the 12-month period ending January 2019. By January 2020, the number of predicted deaths over the past 12 months rose to 72,707. The number of reported fatal drug overdoses rose by 6.0%, from 67,697 in January 2019 to 71,730 in January 2020. The number of fatal drug overdoses has been rising since the mid-1990s. In 2018, the . . .