By Robert Preidt and Robin Foster
HealthDay Reporter
THURSDAY, Oct. 14, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Drug overdose deaths successful the United States deed a caller grounds for the 12-month play ending March 2021, caller authorities information shows.
A grounds precocious 96,779 cause overdose deaths occurred betwixt March 2020 and March 2021, representing a 29.6% rise, caller statistic from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics found. The numbers are provisional, and the CDC's estimation for predicted deaths totals much than 99,000 from March 2020 to March 2021, CNN reported.
"It is important to retrieve that down these devastating numbers are families, friends, and assemblage members who are grieving the nonaccomplishment of loved ones," Regina LaBelle, acting manager of the Executive Office of the President Office of National Drug Control Policy, said successful a statement, CNN reported
The authorities with the largest summation successful overdose deaths (85.1%) during that clip was Vermont. Opioids accounted for the highest fig of overdose deaths, followed by synthetic opioids, excluding methadone, which was linked to the lowest fig of overdose deaths.
Three states saw their fig of overdose deaths diminution from March 2020 to March 2021: New Hampshire, New Jersey and South Dakota. South Dakota's reported overdose deaths declined by 16.3%, the highest of immoderate state.
Between March 2020 and March 2021, the COVID-19 pandemic took clasp successful the United States and disrupted mean regular routines, CNN noted.
The CDC information besides amusement a 29.7% summation successful cause overdose deaths betwixt February 2020 and February 2021.
Earlier this year, the CDC said the much than 93,000 cause overdose deaths already reported successful 2020 was astir 30% much than the fig observed successful 2019, and the largest single-year summation ever successful the United States, CNN reported.
At the time, National Institute connected Drug Abuse Director Dr. Nora Volkow called the fig "chilling" and said the COVID-19 pandemic has "created a devastating collision of wellness crises successful America."
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Visit the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for much connected drug overdose deaths.
SOURCE: CNN
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