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100,000 Americans die from drug overdoses in 2022: CDC

GreenWatch Desk Medicine 2023-05-20, 2:44pm

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More than 100,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2022, according to data released this week from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The year of 2022 was the deadliest on record for drug overdoses, which claimed the lives of an estimated 109,680 people, according to numbers posted Wednesday by the CDC.

Overdose deaths in the United States surged during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The death number rose from 71,000 in 2019 to over 90,000 in 2020, and surpassed 100,000 in 2021 for the first time, reports BSS.