> "Drug-overdose deaths skyrocketed between 2015 and 2017, particularly for adults between ages 25 and 54. The main culprit was fentanyl and other synthetic opi

> "Drug-overdose deaths skyrocketed between 2015 and 2017, particularly for adults between ages 25 and 54. The main culprit was fentanyl and other synthetic opioids that became pervasive in illicit drug supplies in the U.S. around that time." CDC wonder[1] has data from 1999-2016, when I plotted the appropriate ICD-10 codes[2] I found this is a misleading way of describing the data: https://i.ibb.co/N9Fqmxd/CDCmort.png https://i.ibb.co/N9Fqmxd/CDCmort.png You can clearly see that deaths attributed to these codes in those age groups have been increasing since well before 2015, basically since the data became available. [1] https://wonder.cdc.gov/mcd-icd10.html https://wonder.cdc.gov/mcd-icd10.html [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18561136 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18561136