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> This change is largely explained by the 110.6% increase in unintentional poisonings from 2019 to 2020. That's the only days about circumstance I could find i

> This change is largely explained by the 110.6% increase in unintentional poisonings from 2019 to 2020. That's the only days about circumstance I could find in the article. Everything else is about the direct cause of death.

glonq 4y ago
So are they counting fentanyl deaths ("hey somebody put drugs in my drugs") as a drug overdose, or as an accidental poisoning?
- cmh89 4y ago
  It's almost certainly driven by the cause of death on the death certificate.