{"id":20379,"date":"2021-11-19T14:59:28","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T22:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=20379"},"modified":"2021-11-19T16:26:01","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T00:26:01","slug":"u-s-drug-overdose-deaths-hit-record-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/u-s-drug-overdose-deaths-hit-record-high\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Drug Overdose Deaths Hit Record High"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20240\" src=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/warning-300x100-300x100-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14339\" src=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/child-drugs-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/humanevents.com\/author\/courtney\">Human Events Staff<\/a>\u00a0 | \u00a0November 17, 2021<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. recorded its highest number of drug-overdose deaths in a one year period, according to the CDC.<\/p>\n<p>There were an estimated 100,306 drug deaths in the 12 months running through April, the latest data shows. This marks a nearly 29% rise from the deaths recorded in the same period the previous year, per the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/drug-overdose-deaths-fueled-by-fentanyl-hit-record-high-in-u-s-11637161200?mod=djemalertNEWS\"><i>Wall Street Journal.<\/i><\/a><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s telling us that 2021 looks like it will be worse than 2020,\u201d Robert Anderson, chief of the CDC mortality statistics branch, said.<\/p>\n<p>Opioid-related deaths, mainly caused by fentanyl, accounted for about 75 percent of the deaths through April.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the pandemic worsened opioid overdoses due to isolation. The number of overdoses in 2020 surged to a record of about 93,330.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/humanevents.com\/2021\/11\/17\/u-s-drug-overdose-deaths-hit-record-high\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/humanevents.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human Events Staff\u00a0 | \u00a0November 17, 2021 The U.S. recorded its highest number of drug-overdose deaths in a one year period, according to the CDC. There were an estimated 100,306 drug deaths in the 12 months running through April, the latest data shows. This marks a nearly 29% rise from the deaths recorded in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/u-s-drug-overdose-deaths-hit-record-high\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">U.S. Drug Overdose Deaths Hit Record High<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[245,16269,23,16273,16272,42,16270,16271],"class_list":["post-20379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-warning","tag-cdc","tag-drug-deaths","tag-epidemic","tag-fentanyl","tag-opioid-related-deaths","tag-outbreak","tag-overdose-deaths","tag-robert-anderson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20380,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20379\/revisions\/20380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}