From October 2020 to 2021, 105,000 Americans died of drug overdose –

The drug epidemic in the United States set another grim record in October, according to data recently released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The agency announced that approximately 105,752 Americans died from drug overdoses between October 2020 and October 2021, the highest figure ever recorded in a 12-month period. It was also the fourth month for record drug overdose deaths year over year.

It also represents a 16% increase in overdose deaths over the past year.

The vast majority of these deaths were caused by opioids, particularly synthetic opioids such as fentanyl, which has been broken down in the United States in recent years.

The CDC reported that 79,481 deaths were due to opioids, of which 87 percent were due to synthetic versions of the drug.

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, drug overdoses were getting out of control, but disruptions to daily life, social isolation, and the loss some Americans are suffering from the virus created a perfect storm to make the situation worse.

A group of four took an overdose of fentanyl this weekend. In the photo, law enforcement works in the field on the 1600 block of Southwest 40th Terrace, near Fort Lauderdale, on Sunday.

Researchers say that while blockade orders have been successful in preventing transmission of the virus, they have also shut down resources that the homeless can use to deal with drug overdoses. The blockade order was the beginning of the time when the number of homeless people began to increase.

A study by researchers from the University of California, San Francisco reveals that the homeless are an example of those severely affected by drug overdose deaths last year.

The number of deaths in the group doubled in the first year of the pandemic, and Covid is not responsible for the increase. Instead, if the fault is with the drugs, and especially the fentanyl.

Fentanyl also ruined spring break for Florida’s revelers with at least 10 overdoses last week. None of the overdoses resulted in death by Friday afternoon.

Last week, four people were hospitalized in Broward County after drinking cocaine with fentanyl.

Two of the four suffered heart attacks and were later given word of mouth by the other couple, who had been exposed to fentanyl at the time and had to be hospitalized.

Fire crews found the men, aged 26 to 39, on Sunday in a Fort Lauderdale home with “drug residues”.

Their admission comes days after six West Point cadets took an overdose of fentanyl while celebrating spring break in the state. Some suffered heart attacks and were hospitalized.

The CDC report revealed that the nation’s Midwestern and Appalachian states bear the brunt of the American overdose problem.

West Virginia has the largest drug overdose problem in America, with 85.3 of its 100,000 residents dying of overdose within the time frame specified in the report.

Among the leaders are other states in the region such as Tennessee with 55.6 deaths per 100,000 people, Pennsylvania with 55.4 deaths and Kentucky with 53.5 deaths.

The Department of Health and Human Services specifically targeted Appalachians as a concern during the nation’s opioid crisis because rural areas in these states have been hit hard by the opioid crisis.

Also, many of these people are more difficult to overdose on care because they often live much further away from hospitals and emergency rooms than those living in an urban or suburban setting.

Combine these factors with the region’s growing poverty and a pandemic that has now left millions unemployed and isolated from their communities, and many people have sadly allowed their drug use to spiral out of control and lead to their deaths.

The states with the lowest opioid deaths per 100,000 population are South Dakota (10.7), Nebraska (11.3), Iowa (14) and New York (15.5).

Some states have also seen an alarming increase in overdose deaths last year.

According to data from the CDC, Alaska recorded a 78% increase in deaths from 2020 to 2021. Vermont was just behind with an increase of 48%.

A total of 11 states saw an increase of 30 percent or more, which is a huge increase in just one year.

These increases during the pandemic are likely linked to the devastating social isolation caused by the early blockades.

American blacks (yellow) outstripped American whites (grays) in opioid deaths per 100,000 population for the first time since 2001 in 2020, when the racial group saw a record increase in opioids.

Black Americans (yellows) recorded a 49% increase in drug overdose deaths between 2019 and 2020, the highest of any group. Each racial group experienced an increase of 25% or more (dotted line marks the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic)

A survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that in January 2021, 41% of Americans reported having mental health problems, a figure dwarfing the pre-pandemic 11%.

The increase was particularly noticeable among people who have recently lost their job due to Covid or whose annual salary is less than $40,000.

KFF researchers also found a clear association between those who report increased levels of depression and anxiety during Covid and their likelihood of abusing drugs.

However, some states have seen a decrease in overdose deaths; it’s a sign that things didn’t get any worse in America last year.

New Hampshire (five percent drop in overdose deaths), Hawaii (4 percent), Delaware (three percent), Wyoming (two percent) saw declines in deaths from September 2020 to 2021, CDC reports.

The United States eclipsed 100,000 annual overdose deaths for the first time between April 2020 and 2021; this is a serious milestone for the nation after a full year of pandemic.

“As we continue to make progress in beating the COVID-19 pandemic, we cannot ignore this epidemic of loss affecting families and communities across the country,” said President Joe Biden, when data was released in November.

“As we mourn and honor the memory of those we have lost, my government is committed to doing everything we can to curb addiction and end the overdose epidemic.”

Since then, the threshold of 100,000 overdose deaths has been reached in each report.

Opioids (black) are responsible for approximately 80% of overdose deaths in the United States, and synthetic opioids such as fentanyl (brown) are responsible for a large percentage of total opioid deaths.

Opioids, particularly synthetic opioids such as fentanyl, are primarily responsible for the increasing number of overdose deaths.

It is estimated that 79,481 deaths in the 12-month period were due to drugs, of which 69,425 were attributed to synthetics such as fentanyl. Semisynthetic opioids were responsible for 13,706.

The next major cases were psychostimulants, which caused 30,922 deaths, followed by 22,691 deaths from cocaine and just over 10,000 deaths from heroin.

Black Americans have had the brunt of this latest drug overdose, according to a study by researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles.

The research team found that between 2019 and 2020, Black Americans suffered 49 percent more deaths per 100,000 population, increasing from 24.7 to 36.8.

While drug overdoses have long been associated with white Americans and continue to be devastating for that group, black Americans are now the race with the highest number of deaths per capita in America after overtaking whites at the start of the year.