Medical Xpress February 21, 2025
From 2022 to 2023, there was a decrease in the age-adjusted rate of drug overdose death in the United States, according to a report published in the February Health E-Stats, a publication of the National Center for Health Statistics.
Matthew F. Garnett, M.P.H., and Arialdi M. Miniño, M.P.H., from the National Center for Health Statistics in Hyattsville, Maryland, describe changes in drug overdose mortality by selected drug type and state from 2022 to 2023.
The researchers found that from 2022 to 2023 the age-adjusted rate of drug overdose deaths in the United States decreased 4.0 percent (32.6 to 31.3 deaths per 100,000 standard population). West Virginia and the District of Columbia were the jurisdictions with the highest rates in 2023...
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