Deaths Involving Fentanyl, Fentanyl Analogs, and U-47700 - 10 States, July-December 2016

Preliminary estimates of U.S. drug overdose deaths exceeded 60,000 in 2016 and were partially driven by a fivefold increase in overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids (excluding methadone), from 3,105 in 2013 to approximately 20,000 in 2016.
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