The United States is in the midst of an opioid overdose epidemic. ... Nearly half of  all opioid overdose deaths involve a prescription opioid. ... MMWR: Trends in  deaths involving heroin and synthetic opioids excluding methadone and drug  product reports by U.S. Census region, United States — 2006–2015 · CDC Vital  Signs: ...
Oct 1, 2015 ... The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that 46,471 of our  citizens died of a drug overdose in 2013, the most recent. Letter from the Acting  Administrator year for which this information is available. Drug overdose deaths  have become the leading cause of injury death in the United States, ...
Feb 16, 2016 ... vention's National Center for Health Statistics. Causes of death are processed in  accordance with the International Classification of Dis eases, Tenth Revision.  Results—In 2013, a total of 2,596,993 deaths were reported in the United States.  The age-adjusted death rate was 731.9 deaths per. 100,000 U.S. ...
Feb 12, 2015 ... Tobacco, alcohol killed 120 times more Americans than all other drugs combined  in 2013 ... More than 515,000 people in the U.S. suffered deaths attributable to  drug overdosing, smoking and ..... Tobacco killed 480,000 Americans in 2013,  according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
Overdose deaths involving fentanyl and drugs that are similar in structure ( analogs) are increasing and contributing to a complex illicit opioid crisis. ...  Lederhos C, Roll J. A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Citywide Emergency  Department Care Coordination Program to Reduce Prescription Opioid Related  Emergency ...
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 120 Americans on average die from a drug overdose every day. Overall, drug overdose deaths now outnumber deaths from firearms.