ATLANTA, Georgia, July 19, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — New provisional data released by the CDC Wednesday indicates that more than 93,000 Americans died from drug overdoses during 2020 amid unprecedented lockdowns, job losses, and delayed medical care. The number is the highest recorded in American history.
According to the CDC, an estimated 93,331 Americans died of drug overdoses between January and December 2020, compared with roughly 72,000 reported last year, an increase of almost 30 percent.
As reported by Breitbart, the data translate to 256 deaths a day, or 11 deaths every hour.
According to Breitbart’s analysis of the CDC data, “[o]nly two states, New Hampshire and South Dakota, experienced fewer drug overdoses last year than the year prior. Meanwhile, Vermont suffered a nearly 60 percent increase in drug overdoses in 2020 compared to 2019, along with a 52 percent increase in South Carolina and a 54 percent increase in Kentucky.”
Preliminary data published by San Francisco’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner last year found that more than twice as many of the city’s residents died of drug overdoses than from COVID-19 in 2020, with 708 recorded overdose deaths and 254 coronavirus-related deaths.
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