Appendix Figure D.2:

Psychotropic-drug-implicated crude death rate per 100,000 by substance implicated, by drug class (top) and opioid type (bottom)

Note: As noted by the CDC, the percentage of drug overdose deaths that identified the specific drugs involved varied by year, ranging from 75%–79% from 1999 through 2013 and increasing from 81% in 2014 to 94% in 2019 (Hedegaard, et al., 2020). See Appendix C for additional information on unidentified substances.

Note: The CDC considers rates computed from less than 20 deaths to be unreliable.