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It's not laid out explicitly, but you can see the numbers here and pull the 2 textual representations to get the detail: "Top Ten Leading Causes of Death in th
by tyingq 4y ago
It's not laid out explicitly, but you can see the numbers here and pull the 2 textual representations to get the detail:
"Top Ten Leading Causes of Death in the U.S. for Ages 1-44"
https://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/animated-leading-causes.html https://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/animated-leading-causes.h...
"Unintentional Injury" holds overdoses, which are called "unintentional poisoning" in the breakdown in the bottom chart.
For 2020:
80,208 Unintentional Injury deaths
(consisting of)
49,643 Unintentional Poisoning deaths <-- overdoses, 2/3 fentanyl
21,780 Unintentional MV Traffic deaths
2,232 Unintentional Drowning deaths
1,176 Unintentional Fall deaths
5,377 All Other Unintentional deaths
22,431 Suicide deaths
18,838 Homicide deaths
17,310 Heart Disease deaths
16,708 Heart Disease deaths
8,902 COVID-19 deaths
6,620 Liver Disease deaths
4,445 Diabetes deaths
2,927 Stroke deaths
2,100 Influenza & Pneumonia deaths
- Semaphor 4y agoFor anyone else wondering, one of the two "Heart Disease deaths" is "Malignant Cancer deaths", but mislabeled. Inferred from the years before 2020.
- WillPostForFood 4y agoIt is surprisingly hard to get the actual data for fentanyl/opioid overdoses, even though the numbers are on the CDC site, just spread out in multiple places.
- tyingq 4y agoI'm not usually into conspiracy theories, but it has the flavor of "bury this without outright lying".
- 2devnull 4y agoYou suspect the CDC would massage their messaging to manipulate (nudge?) public opinion towards achieving a desired outcome, rather than just straightforward factual scientific reporting the likes of which most people would expect?
- tyingq 4y agoHard to speculate on motivation, but it's very odd that the information is arranged in a way that makes it very difficult to figure out "overdoses are the #1 killer of people aged 1-44".
- rhaway84773 4y agoIs there any reason to believe this has been changed from the 5 years or so ago when overdoses were not the #1 killer?
- dizhn 4y agoSo it really is a huge number, and along with other overdoses it is even bigger. This is mind blowing stuff.
- credit_guy 4y agoFollowing your limk it appears to me that only 46.6% [1], or 23132 deaths, of the unintentional poisoning deaths are classified as X42, or “Accidental poisoning by and exposure to narcotics and psychodysleptics [hallucinogens], not elsewhere classified” [2]. I can”t find any further split into fentanyl and non-fentanyl among those. [1] https://wisqars.cdc.gov/data/lcd/drill-down?lcd=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%3D&causeLabel=Unintentional%20Injury&agegrp=1-44 https://wisqars.cdc.gov/data/lcd/drill-down?lcd=eyJjYXVzZXMi... [2] https://icd.who.int/browse10/2015/en#!/X40-X49 https://icd.who.int/browse10/2015/en#!/X40-X49