Drug and Opioid-Involved Overdose Deaths - United States, 2017-2018

From 2017 to 2018, U.S. overdose death rates involving synthetic opioids (excluding methadone) increased by 10%, death rates involving heroin decreased by 4%, and prescription opioid-involved overdose death rates decreased by 13.5%.
Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - Category: American Health Tags: MMWR Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report Overdose Prescription Drug Abuse Synthetic Opioids Source Type: news