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Drug Overdoses
Data are for the U.S.
Mortality
- Number of drug overdose deaths: 79,384
- Drug overdose deaths per 100,000 population: 23.3
Source: National Vital Statistics System – Mortality Data (2024) via CDC WONDER
- Number of drug overdose deaths involving any opioid: 54,045
- Drug overdose deaths involving any opioid per 100,000 population: 15.9
Source: National Vital Statistics System – Mortality Data (2024) via CDC WONDER
- Number of drug overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids other than methadone: 47,735
- Drug overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids other than methadone per 100,000 population: 14.0
Source: National Vital Statistics System – Mortality Data (2024) via CDC WONDER
- Number of drug overdose deaths involving heroin: 2,743
- Drug overdose deaths involving heroin per 100,000 population: 0.8
Source: National Vital Statistics System – Mortality Data (2024) via CDC WONDER
- Number of drug overdose deaths involving natural and semisynthetic opioids: 7,989
- Drug overdose deaths involving natural and semisynthetic opioids per 100,000 population: 2.3
Source: National Vital Statistics System – Mortality Data (2024) via CDC WONDER
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- Therapeutic Drug Use
More data: reports and tables
- Trends in Drug Overdose from Health, United States
- Health, United States — Topic Page: Drug overdose deaths
- NCHS Fact Sheet – NCHS Data on Drug Overdose Deaths
- Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States, 2023–2024
- Changes in Drug Overdose Mortality and Selected Drug Type by State: United States, 2022 to 2023
- Drugs Most Frequently Involved in Drug Overdose Deaths: United States, 2017–2023 [PDF – 380 KB]
- Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States, 2003-2023
- Drug overdose deaths involving fentanyl, hydrocodone, hydromorphone, oxycodone and oxymorphone, by Health and Human Services Region, 2018–2022
- Estimates of Drug Overdose Deaths Involving Fentanyl, Methamphetamine, Cocaine, Heroin, and Oxycodone: United States, 2021 [PDF – 499 KB]
- Drug Overdose Deaths Involving Xylazine: United States, 2018–2021 [PDF – 661 KB]
- Co-Involvement of Opioids in Drug Overdose Deaths involving Cocaine and Psychostimulants, 2011-2021
- Drug Overdose Mortality by Usual Occupation and Industry: 46 U.S. States and New York City, 2020 [PDF – 656 KB]
- Urban–Rural Differences in Drug Overdose Death Rates, 2020
- Drug Overdose Deaths in Adults Ages 65 and Over: United States, 2000–2020
- MMWR Opioid reports
More data: query tools
- Provisional Drug Overdose Death Counts
- County-level Drug Overdose Mortality in the United States, 2003-2021
- CDC WONDER – Multiple Cause of Death Data
- CDC WONDER – Underlying Cause of Death
- Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS)
- Drug Use-Associated Hospital Encounters Data From Selected Hospitals
- NCHS Provisional Drug Overdose Death Counts
- NCHS Provisional Drug Overdose Death Counts for Specific Drugs