The AP (3/21, Stobbe ) reports, “Nearly 108,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2022, according to final federal figures released Thursday” by the CDC. Over the past 20 years, “the number of U.S. overdose deaths has risen almost every year and continued to break annual records – making it the worst overdose epidemic in American history.” The official tally “for 2022 was 107,941, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said, which is about 1% higher than the nearly 107,000 overdose deaths in 2021.”

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— “Drug overdoses reach another record with almost 108,000 Americans in 2022, CDC says,” Mike Stobbe, Associated Press, March 21, 2024