HealthDay (9/2, Gotkine) reports new research shows that “from 2021 to 2024, 59.0 percent of overdose deaths involved stimulants.” The researchers “found that during January 2021 to June 2024, 59.0 percent of overdose deaths involved stimulants: 43.1 and 15.9 percent co-involved stimulants and opioids and involved stimulants and no opioids, respectively.
Compared with those who died of overdoses involving stimulants and opioids, people who died of overdoses involving stimulants and no opioids were older (aged 45 years and older: 66.5 versus 44.2 percent) and more often had a history of cardiovascular disease (38.7 versus 21.2 percent).”
The research also highlights that from 2018 to 2023, “there was an increase in stimulant-involved overdose death rates,” with increases “largest among non-Hispanic American Indian or Alaska Native persons and among non-Hispanic Black or African American persons.” The research was published in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
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— “59.0 Percent of Overdose Deaths Involved Stimulants in 2021 to 2024,” Elana Gotkine, HealthDay, September 2, 2025