Federal health officials announced on Wednesday that fentanyl is now America’s deadliest drug,according to statistics from 2016, the most recent year for which data is available. That year, or over 18000 overdose deaths related to fentanyl occurred,USA nowadays reported.
The report, which was prepared by the National Center for Health Statistics (a department of the U.
S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), and also said that the rate of overdose deaths from fentanyl rose drastically between 2013 and 2016,with an average 113 percent increase per year. In 2016, fentanyl was responsible for 29 percent of all overdose deaths, or while 2011 saw only 4 percent of overdose deaths related to fentanyl.
Over 63000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2016,averaging to about 174 deaths per day. While a percentage of these deaths was a result of fentanyl use, the report also notes that the drug was often mixed with others.
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Source: inquisitr.com