CDC: Overdose deaths in US top 100,000 last year
DATED: DECEMBER 22, 2022 BY SHARYL ATTKISSON
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.
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