It’s the highest annual death toll on record.
Overdose-related deaths were already increasing before the pandemic, but there was “clearly a very sharp uptick during the pandemic,” said Joseph Friedman, an addiction researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles. Hein April that found drug overdose deaths among teenagers rose sharply over the last two years.
According to the NCHS report, fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid, was involved in the most overdose deaths in 2021: 71,238. Methamphetamine was implicated in 32,856 overdose deaths, cocaine in 24,538 deaths, and prescription pain medications in 13,503 deaths.Friedman said that illicitly manufactured fentanyl, in particular, is a huge problem in the U.S., as it can be packaged as pills.laced with fentanyl following the death of a student.
Ahmad agreed that fentanyl is a huge problem, but added that other drugs, like methamphetamines, are also involved in a large number of deaths,The biggest percentage increase in overdose deaths in 2021 was in Alaska, where deaths were up 75.3% compared to the previous year, according to the report.
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