While COVID-19 drove this excess in 2021, nearly half of excess deaths were from other causes
One in 370 deaths among older adults was caused by an overdose in 2021
Standardized mortality rate increased for those receiving monotherapy, those receiving four or more meds, those without comorbidities
And, gap in overdose fatalities between Black and White individuals continues to widen
Healthy pattern includes seven to eight hours of sleep nightly and sleeping through the night without sleep medications
Mortality rate within five years of drunk driving arrest lower for participants in a 24/7 alcohol monitoring program
Proportion of deaths co-involving methamphetamine and heroin or fentanyl peaked at 61.2 percent in 2021
However, physicians had substantially lower excess mortality than the general U.S. population
Findings not just for obstetric causes, but also for drug-related deaths, homicide, and motor vehicle crashes
About 90 and 83.9 percent of overdose deaths involved opioids and illicitly manufactured fentanyls