Read: Drug Overdose Deaths Involving Cocaine: United States, 2009–2018

NCHS Data Brief, Number 384, October 2020

Increase in Drug Overdose Deaths Involving Cocaine: United States, 2009–2018

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Data from the National Vital Statistics System, Mortality

• The rate of drug overdose deaths involving cocaine was stable between 2009 and 2013, then nearly tripled from 1.6 per 100,000 in 2013 to 4.5 in 2018.
• In 2018, rates were highest for adults aged 35–44 and lowest for those aged 65 and over.
• In 2018, the rate for the non-Hispanic black population (9.0) was nearly twice that for the non-Hispanic white (4.6) and three times that for the Hispanic (3.0) populations.

Keywords

opioids, urban-rural, census region, National Vital Statistics System Mortality File

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