{"id":112092,"date":"2022-05-12T07:00:53","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=112092"},"modified":"2022-05-12T06:32:49","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T10:32:49","slug":"nyt-front-page-overdose-deaths-continue-rising-with-fentanyl-and-meth-key-culprits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=112092","title":{"rendered":"(NYT front page) Overdose Deaths Continue Rising, With Fentanyl and Meth Key Culprits"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a catastrophic increase in 2020, deaths from drug overdoses rose again to record-breaking levels in 2021, nearing 108,000, the result of an ever-worsening fentanyl crisis, according to preliminary new data<\/a> published on Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n

The increase of nearly 15 percent followed a much steeper rise of almost 30 percent in 2020, an unrelenting crisis that has consumed federal and state drug policy officials. Since the 1970s, the number of drug overdose deaths has increased every year except 2018.<\/p>\n

A growing share of deaths continue to come from overdoses involving fentanyl, a class of potent synthetic opioids that are often mixed with other drugs, and methamphetamine, a synthetic stimulant. State health officials battling an influx of both drugs said many of the deaths appeared to be the result of combining the two.<\/p>\n

Drug overdoses, which long ago surged above the country\u2019s peak deaths from AIDS, car crashes and guns, killed about a quarter as many Americans last year as Covid-19.<\/p>\n

Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Breaking News: U.S. deaths from drug overdoses again rose to record-breaking levels in 2021, nearing 108,000, according to preliminary data from the CDC.<\/p>\n

The increase of nearly 15% followed a much steeper rise of almost 30% in 2020.https:\/\/t.co\/GX3AR3TlR0<\/a><\/p>\n

— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 11, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n