by Monty Self | Aug 2, 2022 | Opinion
More than 100,000 people in the U.S. died from unintended drug overdoses in 2021, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That is a 15% increase over the 91,799 lives lost in 2020, which was a record increase of 30% over 2019. With...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Jun 20, 2022 | News
The combined number of U.S. deaths from alcohol, drugs and suicide jumped 20% from 2019 to 2020, according to a report published in late May by Trust for America’s Health. Total deaths reached nearly 187,000 in 2020, with over 96,000 drug-related, over 49,000...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Jan 24, 2022 | News
The drug overdose death rate in the U.S. increased 31% between 2019 and 2020, according to National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) data published on Dec. 30, 2021. There were 91,799 drug overdose deaths (28.3 per 100,000 population) last year, which is up from...
by Monty Self | Aug 27, 2021 | Opinion
There were more than 70,000 overdose deaths in the U.S. in 2019. This number has steadily been rising since the 1990’s, fueled by the opioid crisis of the last two decades. Opioid-related deaths have increased from 21,088 in 2010 to 49,860 in 2019. Specifically,...
by Zach Dawes Jr | May 26, 2021 | News
The number of annual deaths in the U.S. from alcohol, drugs and suicide has more than doubled in the past two decades, according to a report from The Well Being Trust published May 12. There were roughly 156,000 deaths in 2019 due to alcohol, drugs and suicide, up...