Addiction Prevalence & Deaths Up—Opioids Front & Center

Over the past few months, some troubling new addiction and overdose statistics have been released. Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released data indicating that there were 107,622 drug overdose deaths in the U.S. in 2021, an increase of nearly 15% from the 93,655 deaths estimated in 2020 (see U.S. Overdose Deaths In 2021 Increased Half As Much As In 2020 – But Are Still Up 15%). Overdose deaths involving opioids also increased, from an estimated 70,029 in 2020 to 80,816 in 2021. And according to the most recent information from . . .