Originally published by our sister publication Pain Medicine News
An analysis of drug overdose deaths from the CDC’s WONDER data set for 2020 to 2021 indicates American men suffer such deaths at a higher rate than women, but the reasons for the statistic remain unclear.
“Men have approximately twofold greater overdose mortality for synthetic opioids (e.g., fentanyl) and heroin, compared with women, based on CDC data across states,” lead researcher Eduardo R. Butelman, PhD, an