The latest data from a new CDC report show a 700% plus increase in overdose deaths involving the fentanyl analog carfentanil in a 1-year period.
The number of drug overdose deaths involving illegally manufactured fentanyl and fentanyl analogs dropped in the United States during the latter portion of 2023. But a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests that an increase in overdoses involving the potent fentanyl analog
Prior to this resurgence of carfentanil, the drug “had largely disappeared after carfentanil-involved overdose death outbreaks in 2016-2017,” study authors noted, when carfentanil overdose deaths topped 1200, To investigate further, researchers used data from the CDC’s State Unintentional Drug Overdose Reporting System to analyze detection of IMFs and carfentanil between January 2021 and June 2024.
IMF-linked deaths peaked at 16,814 in the second quarter of 2023, then declined by nearly 16% to 14,299 deaths by the end of that year. Specifically, deaths due to IMFs decreased 11% in the Northeast , 16% in the Midwest , and 10.5% in the South .
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