Drug Overdoses
Data are for the U.S.
Mortality
- Number of drug overdose deaths: 70,237 (2017)
Source: Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States: 1999-2017
- Drug overdose deaths per 100,000 population: 21.6 (2017)
- Drug overdose deaths involving any opioid per 100,000 population: 14.6 (2017)
- Drug overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids other than methadone per 100,000 population: 8.7 (2017)
- Drug overdose deaths involving heroin per 100,000 population: 4.8 (2017)
- Drug overdose deaths involving natural and semisynthetic opioids per 100,000 population: 4.5 (2017)
Source: Health, United States, 2018, table 8 pdf icon[ PDF – 9.8 MB]
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More data: reports and tables
- NCHS Fact Sheet – NCHS Data on Drug Poisoning Deaths
- Urban–rural Differences in Drug Overdose Death Rates, by Sex, Age, and Type of Drugs Involved, 2017
- Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States, 1999-2017
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- Drug Overdose Deaths Among Adolescents Aged 15-19 in the United States: 1999-2015
- Drugs Most Frequently Involved in Drug Overdose Deaths, 2011-2016 pdf icon[PDF – 335 KB]
- Drug-poisoning Deaths Involving Heroin: United States, 2000-2013
- Trends in Drug Poisoning Deaths Involving Opioid Analgesics and Heroin, United States, 1999-2012pdf icon
- MMWR Opioid reports
More data: query tools
Page last reviewed: August 30, 2018
Content source: CDC/National Center for Health Statistics