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English: "​Figure 4. National Overdose Deaths Involving Prescription Opioids, by other Opioid Involvement—Number Among All Ages, 1999-2021. The figure above is a bar and line graph showing the total number of U.S. overdose deaths involving prescription opioids (including natural and semi-synthetic opioids and methadone) from 1999 to 2021. Drug overdose deaths involving prescription opioids rose from 3,442 in 1999 to 17,029 in 2017. From 2017 to 2019, the number of deaths declined to 14,139. This was followed by a slight increase in 2020, with 16,416 reported deaths. In 2021, the number of reported deaths involving prescription opioids totaled 16,706. The bars are overlaid by a line showing the number of deaths involving prescription opioids in combination with synthetic opioids other than methadone (primarily fentanyl) from 1999 to 2021 (Source: CDC WONDER)."
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Source From Overdose Death Rates. By National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). 1999-2021 chart. 1999-2019 chart. 2002-2016 chart. 2002-2015 chart.
Author National Institute on Drug Abuse. Some charts were cropped to lessen outer white space. Some had "USA" added to it. Freeware IrfanView was used. The edited charts are under the same public domain license. See Commons:Convert tables and charts to wiki code or image files, and the section about adding text to chart images.

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