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by Tyler Durden
The CDC released the data On drug overdose deaths Wednesday, the organization found that the total for 2020 rose 30% to a record high of 93,331 in the epidemic year of the virus of 2020 compared to the previous year.
About 93,331 Americans died from drug overdoses last year, according to CDC data. That’s compared to 72,000 from 2019, the previous record, the CDC reports.
“This is an astonishing number even for those of us who have followed this problem,” said Brendan Saloner, associate professor of health policy and management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The Wall Street Journal. “Our public health tools have not kept pace with the urgency of the crisis.”
Rising overdose and deaths from coronavirus Draw help Life expectancy in the United States reached 77.8 years in 2020, down from 78.8 years in 2019 to levels not seen since 2006.
Even before the epidemic, the country resist With the worst drug crisis ever as Mexican cartels continued to push synthetic opioids, such as fentanyl, across the southern border and into US metro areas.
The opioid crisis exacerbated by lockdowns and other pandemic restrictions, drug addiction spiraled out of control as millions of people were left in Despair.
The main driver of overdoses was synthetic opioids, particularly fentanyl. Robert Anderson, chief of the mortality statistics branch at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics, said 57,550 people died from synthetic overdoses, a jump of more than 54% from 2019.
“Sure, fentanyl is the driving factor,” Anderson said. Deaths from opioid overdoses overall are up about 37%, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Here’s how the number of drug deaths has changed across the country. Every state, except for South Dakota and New Hampshire, has seen an increase in drug deaths.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data showed that drug overdose deaths for 2020 translated to an average of 250 deaths every day, or roughly 11 every hour.
Deaths from drug overdoses and COVID have constituted a dual public health crisis.
Source: ZeroHedge
