The United States records the deaths of more than 107,000 Americans from drug overdoses in 2021

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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that more than 107,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2021, in a tragic new record of overdose deaths.

The Associated Press quoted Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute for Drug Control, as saying in a report, "The latest figures are truly shocking, and that in 2021 there was a drug overdose death in the United States every five minutes, which is an increase of 15 percent from the previous record set a year earlier. “.

The White House had issued a statement describing the acceleration of deaths due to drug overdose as unacceptable, and called for the adoption of a national strategy to combat drugs that had been announced recently. Naloxone, where drug overdose deaths have risen in the United States every year for two decades.