CDC Drug Overdose Death Rates by Drug Type & Demographic (1999-present)

Dataset · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · source URL ↗

CDC NCHS opioid crisis timeseries — 6.2k rows breaking down US drug overdose deaths by drug panel (All overdose / Heroin / Natural & semi-synthetic opioids / Methadone / Synthetic opioids other than methadone (fentanyl) / Cocaine / Psychostimulants with abuse potential like meth) × demographic stub (sex, race+sex, age groups). Age-adjusted deaths per 100,000 with stub_name + stub_label drill-down. Surfaces the fentanyl curve, heroin decline, and meth resurgence over 25 years.

Source organization
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Coverage
6,228 drug-year-demographic rows
Latest local indexed-row date
2026-05-18
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Keywords

CDC overdose ratesfentanyl deathsopioid crisissynthetic opioidsdrug poisoning mortalitydemographic disparities

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