Table 1. Prescription opioids overdose deaths in US (2000-2016), including and excluding synthetic opioids.
Conservative definition for prescription opioids: natural and semisynthetic opioids and methadone | Traditional definition for prescription opioids: natural and semisynthetic opioids and methadone, and other synthetic opioids | Synthetic opioids other than methadone | ||||
Year | Number | Overdose deaths per 100,000 | Number | Overdose deaths per 100,000 | Number | Overdose deaths per 100,000 |
2000 | 3785 | 1.3 | 4400 | 1.5 | 782 | 0.3 |
2001 | 4770 | 1.7 | 5528 | 1.9 | 957 | 0.3 |
2002 | 6483 | 2.3 | 7456 | 2.6 | 1295 | 0.4 |
2003 | 7461 | 2.6 | 8517 | 2.9 | 1400 | 0.5 |
2004 | 8577 | 2.9 | 9857 | 3.4 | 1664 | 0.6 |
2005 | 9612 | 3.2 | 10928 | 3.7 | 1742 | 0.6 |
2006 | 11589 | 3,9 | 13723 | 4.6 | 2707 | 0.9 |
2007 | 12796 | 4.2 | 14408 | 4.8 | 2213 | 0.7 |
2008 | 13149 | 4.3 | 14800 | 4.8 | 2306 | 0.8 |
2009 | 13523 | 4.4 | 15597 | 5.0 | 2946 | 1.0 |
2010 | 14583 | 4.7 | 16651 | 5.4 | 3007 | 1.0 |
2011 | 15140 | 4.9 | 16917 | 5.4 | 2666 | 0.8 |
2012 | 14240 | 4.5 | 16007 | 5.1 | 2628 | 0.8 |
2013 | 14145 | 4.4 | 16235 | 5.1 | 3105 | 1.0 |
2014 | 14838 | 4.6 | 18893 | 5.9 | 5544 | 1.8 |
2015 | 15281 | 4.7 | 22598 | 7.0 | 9580 | 3.1 |
2016 | 17087 | 5.2 | 32445 | 10.2 | 19413 | 6.2 |