Washington faltered as fentanyl gripped America

Re:Washington faltered as fentanyl gripped America by tyingq on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @09:04AM (#33968980)

It's not laid out explicitly, but you can see the numbers here and pull the 2 textual representations to get the detail:

"Top Ten Leading Causes of Death in the U.S. for Ages 1-44"

https://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/animated-leading-causes.h...

"Unintentional Injury" holds overdoses, which are called "unintentional poisoning" in the breakdown in the bottom chart.

For 2020:

  80,208 Unintentional Injury deaths
    (consisting of)
    49,643 Unintentional Poisoning deaths <-- overdoses, 2/3 fentanyl
    21,780 Unintentional MV Traffic deaths
     2,232 Unintentional Drowning deaths
     1,176 Unintentional Fall deaths
     5,377 All Other Unintentional deaths
  22,431 Suicide deaths
  18,838 Homicide deaths
  17,310 Heart Disease deaths
  16,708 Heart Disease deaths
   8,902 COVID-19 deaths
   6,620 Liver Disease deaths
   4,445 Diabetes deaths
   2,927 Stroke deaths
   2,100 Influenza & Pneumonia deaths

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Re:Washington faltered as fentanyl gripped America by Semaphor on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @09:14AM (#33969103)

For anyone else wondering, one of the two "Heart Disease deaths" is "Malignant Cancer deaths", but mislabeled. Inferred from the years before 2020.

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Re:Washington faltered as fentanyl gripped America by dizhn on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @11:30AM (#33971104)

So it really is a huge number, and along with other overdoses it is even bigger. This is mind blowing stuff.

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Re:Washington faltered as fentanyl gripped America by WillPostForFood on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @11:05AM (#33970697)

It is surprisingly hard to get the actual data for fentanyl/opioid overdoses, even though the numbers are on the CDC site, just spread out in multiple places.

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Re:Washington faltered as fentanyl gripped America by tyingq on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @11:44AM (#33971378)

I'm not usually into conspiracy theories, but it has the flavor of "bury this without outright lying".

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Re:Washington faltered as fentanyl gripped America by 2devnull on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @01:47PM (#33973776)

You suspect the CDC would massage their messaging to manipulate (nudge?) public opinion towards achieving a desired outcome, rather than just straightforward factual scientific reporting the likes of which most people would expect?

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Re:Washington faltered as fentanyl gripped America by tyingq on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @04:45PM (#33976343)

Hard to speculate on motivation, but it's very odd that the information is arranged in a way that makes it very difficult to figure out "overdoses are the #1 killer of people aged 1-44".

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Re:Washington faltered as fentanyl gripped America by rhaway84773 on Thursday December 15, 2022 @08:17AM (#33999043)

Is there any reason to believe this has been changed from the 5 years or so ago when overdoses were not the #1 killer?

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Re:Washington faltered as fentanyl gripped America by credit_guy on Thursday December 15, 2022 @04:13AM (#33997031)

Following your limk it appears to me that only 46.6% [1], or 23132 deaths, of the unintentional poisoning deaths are classified as X42, or “Accidental poisoning by and exposure to narcotics and psychodysleptics [hallucinogens], not elsewhere classified” [2]. I can”t find any further split into fentanyl and non-fentanyl among those.

[1] https://wisqars.cdc.gov/data/lcd/drill-down?lcd=eyJjYXVzZXMi...

[2] https://icd.who.int/browse10/2015/en#!/X40-X49

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