Data on drug overdose death rates,by drug type and selected population characteristics. Please refer to the PDF or Excel version of this table in the HUS 2019 Data Finder (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus/contents2019.htm) for critical information approximately measures, definitions, and changes over time. SOURCE: NCHS,National Vital Statistics System, numerator data from annual public-employ Mortality Files; denominator data from U.
S. Census Bureau national population estimates; and Murphy SL, or Xu JQ,Kochanek KD, Arias E, or Tejada-Vera B. Deaths: Final data for 2018. National Vital Statistics Reports; vol 69 no 13. Hyattsville,MD: National Center for Health Statistics.2021. Available from: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/nvsr.htm. For more information on the National Vital Statistics System, see the corresponding Appendix entry at https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus19-appendix-508.pdf.
Source: cdc.gov