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Message: <blockquote data-quote="swampratt" data-source="post: 3729048" data-attributes="member: 15054">1 person every 5 seconds dies of drug abuse.I looked up some numbers and did not find 2021 numbers but 2019 was found and Found this on CDC web sight.  in a year  deaths at 1 every 5 seconds would be  105,120 deaths.I also found 1 in 5 drug overdose  deaths are from cocaine.1 In 2019, 70,630 drug overdose deaths occurred in the United States. The age-adjusted rate of overdose deaths increased by over 4% from 2018 (20.7 per 100,000) to 2019 (21.6 per 100,000).<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Opioids—mainly synthetic opioids (other than methadone)—are currently the main driver of drug overdose deaths. 72.9% of opioid-involved overdose deaths involve synthetic opioids.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Opioids were involved in 49,860 overdose deaths in 2019 (70.6% of all drug overdose deaths).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Drug overdose deaths involving psychostimulants such as methamphetamine are increasing with and without synthetic opioid involvement.2</li> </ul>Drug overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids and methamphetamine have shifted geographically.2<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">From 2018 to 2019, the largest increase in death rates involving synthetic opioids occurred in the West (67.9%).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The largest increase in death rates involving psychostimulants occurred in the Northeast (43.8%).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Previously, the East had the highest increases in deaths involving synthetic opioids, and the Midwest had the highest increases in deaths involving psychostimulants.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">No state experienced a significant decrease from 2018-2019.</li> </ul></blockquote>

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