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  1. While fatal overdoses are highly associated with drugs such as opiates, cocaine and alcohol, deaths from other drugs such as caffeine are extremely rare. This alphabetical list contains 634 people whose deaths can be reliably sourced to be the result of drug overdose or acute drug intoxication.

    • Erica Blasberg

      Erica Paige Blasberg (July 14, 1984 – May 9, 2010) was an...

    • Kevyn Aucoin

      Kevyn James Aucoin (/ oʊ ˈ k w æ̃ /; February 14, 1962 – May...

    • Jay Reatard

      Lindsey played "Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on...

    • Steve Bechler

      Steven Scott Bechler (November 18, 1979 – February 17, 2003)...

    • Drug overdose

      Drug overdose was the leading cause of injury death in 2013....

  2. Around 1,106,900 US residents died from drug overdoses from 1968 to 2020, around 932,400 from 1999 through 2020 and around 91,800 in 2020. Of every 100,000 people in 2020 in the US, drugs killed 28. Opioids were involved in around 80,400 of the around 106,700 deaths in 2021.

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  4. Mar 21, 2024 · The rate of drug overdose deaths increased among middle-aged and older adults from 2021 to 2022. Between 2021 and 2022, age-adjusted rates of drug overdose deaths increased for American Indian and Alaska Native non-Hispanic, Black non-Hispanic, Hispanic, and Asian non-Hispanic people.

  5. More than one million people have died since 1999 from a drug overdose. 1 In 2021, 106,699 drug overdose deaths occurred in the United States. The age-adjusted rate of overdose deaths increased by 14% from 2020 (28.3 per 100,000) to 2021 (32.4 per 100,000).

  6. Dec 22, 2020 · Drug overdose deaths are identified using the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD–10) underlying cause-of-death codes X40–X44, X60–X64, X85, and Y10–Y14. Age-adjusted death rates were calculated using the direct method and the 2000 U.S. standard population.

  7. This report presents rates of drug overdose deaths from the National Vital Statistics System over a 20-year period by demographic group and by the type of drugs involved, with a focus on changes from 2021 to 2022. Subjects: [+] Series: NCHS data Brief; no. 491. Document Type: Report. Place as Subject: United States. Collection (s):

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