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93,000 people died of drug overdoses in US in 2020

chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2021-07-15 08:04

The CDC reported Wednesday that the number of Americans who died of drug overdoses in 2020 soared to a record 93,000, or more than 250 deaths a day. That provisional estimate amounts to a 29 percent increase over the 72,000 drug-overdose deaths in 2019.

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