Drug Overdoses
Data are for the U.S.
Mortality
- Number of drug overdose deaths: 67,367 (2018)
Source: Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States: 1999-2018
- Drug overdose deaths per 100,000 population: 20.6
Source: National Vital Statistics System – Mortality Data (2018) via CDC WONDER
- Drug overdose deaths involving any opioid per 100,000 population: 14.3
Source: National Vital Statistics System – Mortality Data (2018) via CDC WONDER
- Drug overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids other than methadone per 100,000 population: 9.6
Source: National Vital Statistics System – Mortality Data (2018) via CDC WONDER
- Drug overdose deaths involving heroin per 100,000 population: 4.6
Source: National Vital Statistics System – Mortality Data (2018) via CDC WONDER
- Drug overdose deaths involving natural and semisynthetic opioids per 100,000 population: 3.8
Source: National Vital Statistics System – Mortality Data (2018) via CDC WONDER
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- Therapeutic Drug Use
More data: reports and tables
- Trends in Drug Overdose from Health, United States
- NCHS Fact Sheet – NCHS Data on Drug Poisoning Deaths
- Co-involvement of Opioids in Drug Overdose Deaths Involving Cocaine and Psychostimulants
- Urban-Rural Differences in Drug Overdose Death Rates, 1999-2019
- Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States, 1999-2019
- Increase in Drug Overdose Deaths Involving Cocaine: United States, 2009-2018
- Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States, 1999-2018
- Regional Differences in the Drugs Most Frequently Involved in Drug Overdose Deaths: United States, 2017 pdf icon[PDF – 761 KB]
- Urban–rural Differences in Drug Overdose Death Rates, by Sex, Age, and Type of Drugs Involved, 2017
- Drug Overdose Deaths Involving Fentanyl, 2011-2016 pdf icon[PDF – 921 KB]
- 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]
- MMWR Opioid reports
More data: query tools
Page last reviewed: April 9, 2021
Content source: CDC/National Center for Health Statistics