page_title: United States drug overdose death rates and totals over time
hierarchical_section_title: United States drug overdose death rates and totals over time
caption_attribution_description: English: "Figure 1. National Drug Overdose Deaths—Number Among All Ages, by Gender, 1999-2017. More than 70,200 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2017, including illicit drugs and prescription opioids—a 2-fold increase in a decade. The figure above is a bar and line graph showing the total number of U.S. overdose deaths involving all drugs from 1999 to 2017. Drug overdose deaths rose from 16,849 in 1999 to 70,237 in 2017. The bars are overlaid by lines showing the number of deaths by gender from 1999 to 2017 (Source: CDC WONDER)."
context_page_description: The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has data on drug overdose death rates and totals. 945,877 US residents died from drug overdoses from 1968 to 2018. From 1999 to Feb 2019 over 770,000 people died from drug overdoses. 21 people out of every 100,000 died from drug overdoses in 2018 in the US.
context_section_description: The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has data on drug overdose death rates and totals. 945,877 US residents died from drug overdoses from 1968 to 2018. From 1999 to Feb 2019 over 770,000 people died from drug overdoses. 21 people out of every 100,000 died from drug overdoses in 2018 in the US.
caption: U.S. yearly overdose deaths from all drugs.[1]
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