World News | US Drug Overdose Deaths Top 1 Million: NPR
Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. Deaths due to drug overdose have topped a million over past 20 years, U.S. broadcaster NPR reported on Thursday, citing statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
New York [US], January 1 (ANI/Xinhua): Deaths due to drug overdose have topped a million over past 20 years, U.S. broadcaster NPR reported on Thursday, citing statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
According to a study released by the National Center for Health Statistics, a division of the CDC, 932,364 people died in the United States from fatal overdoses from 1999 through 2020.
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Separate preliminary data from the CDC shows another 100,000 drug deaths expected in 2021, said the report. (ANI/Xinhua)
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