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CDC: Overdose deaths in US top 100,000 last year

Dated: December 22, 2022 by Sharyl Attkisson 3 Comments

      

The following is an excerpt from Associated Press (AP).

Nearly 107,000 Americans died of drug overdoses last year, according to final figures released Thursday.

The official number was 106,699, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

That’s nearly 16% higher than the nearly 92,000 overdose deaths in 2020.

Earlier, provisional data suggested there were more than 107,000 overdose deaths last year.

The numbers may have changed as some additional death records have come in, a CDC spokesman said.

Also, provisional data includes all overdose deaths, while the final numbers are limited to U.S. residents, he noted.

The CDC on Thursday also released a final report for overall U.S. deaths in 2021.

As previously reported, more than 3.4 million Americans died that year, or more than 80,000 than the year before.

Accidental injuries — which include drug overdoses — was the fourth leading cause of death, after heart disease, cancer and Covid-19.

Life expectancy fell to about 76 years, 5 months.

Link to article here.

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  1. Alison says

    December 22, 2022 at 9:27 pm

    Please dig into this deeper! We’re supposedly getting enough fentanyl Crossing our southern border to kill each one of us many times over. I agree, it doesn’t seem to add up. I am not medically trained but you can only build up so much tolerance so that argument doesn’t seem valid.

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  2. Rick says

    December 23, 2022 at 1:26 pm

    What percentage of overdose deaths are related to prescription drugs as prescribed by doctors and hospitals?

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