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The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has data on drug overdose death rates and totals. Over 1,106,000 US residents died from drug overdoses from 1968 to 2020. Over 932,000 from 1999 through 2020. Over 91,000 in 2020. 28 people out of every 100,000 died from drug overdoses in 2020 in the US. Opioids were involved in 70.6% (nearly 50,000) of the nearly 71,000 deaths in 2019.[2][3][4]
Around 109,200 people died in the 12-month period ending March 31, 2022, at a rate of 299 deaths per day.[5]