Overdose Deaths Continue Rising

“Deaths from drug overdoses continued rising to record-breaking levels in 2021, nearing 108,000,” the New York Times reports.

“The increase of nearly 15 percent followed a much steeper rise of almost 30 percent in 2020, an unrelenting crisis that has consumed federal and state drug policy officials. The number of drug overdose deaths has increased every year but 2018 since the 1970s.”