Drug and Opioid-Involved Overdose Deaths - United States, 2017-2018
by from Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) on (#50Z5P)
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%.