![]() ![]() Traditionally, drug overdose and other injury deaths have been regarded as “background mortality,” the expectation being that mortality from these causes of death should continue to decrease and ultimately decline to negligible levels over time ( Bongaarts 2006) with improved public health and safety measures, economic growth, etc. ![]() ![]() The epidemic shows no signs of leveling off: drug overdose mortality continued to rise through 2017, amounting to over 70,000 deaths in that year and increasing by 16 percent per year between 20 ( Hedegaard, Warner, and Miniño 2018). Over the past two decades, drug overdose has more than tripled to become the leading cause of injury deaths in the US, outnumbering deaths from motor vehicle accidents and homicides according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) / National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) Compressed Mortality File and Cause of Death Files (full information in the list of References). Drug overdose mortality has reached unprecedented levels in the United States. ![]()
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