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Psychotropic-drug-implicated deaths 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.
