More than 64,000 Americans died of drug overdoses last year, according to the first government report to include all recorded drug deaths from 2016. That’s up 22 percent from the roughly 52,000 overdose deaths in 2015. The numbers for last year are still provisional, since the cause of death in some cases remains under investigation. By 2015, drug overdose deaths had already far outstripped firearm homicides and HIV deaths during their peak deadliest years. As of 2016, overdoses also overtook the worst death toll from car accidents.

Source: Huffington Post September 08, 2017 00:45 UTC