The year-to-year rise in overdose deaths was much higher from 2019 to 2020, jumping by a historic 30%. While the rise in deaths slowed down in 2021, the total number of deaths is still the highest annual overdose deaths ever recorded in the U.S.
Containers of pills and prescription drugs are boxed for disposal during the Drug Enforcement Administration’s 20th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on April 24, 2021. Nearly 108,000 people died in 2021 from drug overdoses.
“Over 80,000 of those deaths involved opioids, which was about a 15% increase from last year,” says Ahmad. This has put a bigger population of drug users at risk of overdoses, she adds. “In many instances, these may be people that take just one pill and they get that contaminated pill and they can die.”A recent study
, including increasing access to harm reduction methods like Naloxone, the medication that reverses overdoses.
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