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The US government announced that the number of deaths due to drug overdoses in the country exceeded the threshold of 100,000 cases between April 2020 and April 2021, an increase of 28.5 percent amid the outbreak of the Corona epidemic.
According to the Washington Post, the government explained that this is the first time that drug-related deaths have reached six figures in one year, indicating that the number of daily deaths has reached 275, and that more deaths resulting from overdoses of the illegal synthetic opioid fentanyl than there are deaths. resulting from overdoses of any drug in 2016.
According to government data, California recorded the highest number of drug overdose deaths, with 10,408 deaths, followed by Florida with 7,805 cases, and then Illinois with 3,577 cases.
In 2019, the United States ranked first in the world with a percentage of deaths resulting from drug overdose, amounting to 21.1 percent, followed by Norway, 5 percent, and Sweden, 4.8 percent.