Nearly 10,000 Americans STILL dying from drug overdoses every month, new CDC data shows: How bad is the epidemic in your state?

Nearly 10,000 Americans are still dying from drug overdoses every month, figures show.

An update by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed that in the year to February there were up to 109,940 drug overdose deaths, which the agency said was probably ‘an underestimate’.

That is the equivalent of 9,161 deaths per month, which experts warned was like a jet full of Americans crashing and burning almost every day.

Fentanyl was the main cause of deaths, behind about eight in ten cases. It was followed by methamphetamines, cocaine and prescription opioids.

The above map shows the percentage change in overdose deaths by state between February 2022 and February 2023. Washington, Maine and Nevada were the states to see the sharpest rises

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