USA. How dozens of U.S. adolescents are dying of drug overdoses each month, shown in 3 charts
USA. How dozens of U.S. adolescents are dying of drug overdoses each month, shown in 3 charts
Drug overdose deaths in the United States continue to rise.
Overdoses claimed more than 112,000 American lives from May 2022 to May 2023, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a 37 percent increase compared with the 12-month period ending in May 2020.
The vast majority of those who died were adults. But drug overdoses are killing young Americans in unprecedented numbers: The monthly total rose from 31 in July 2019 to 87 in May 2021, the period with the most recent data. (NPR – National Public Radio, USA, 02.12.2023)
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