Bloomberg Businessweek on record deaths from drug overdoses

Drug overdoses of all kinds killed almost 84,000 people in the U.S. from August 2019 to July 2020.  That's 23% more than in the previous 12-month period, and the highest number of overdose deaths recorded in a single year.  Opioids accounted for more than 61,000, or 73% of those deaths.

~ Valerie Bauman and Ian Lopez, "A Crisis With No End in Sight," Bloomberg Businessweek, March 1, 2021