US map of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/drug_overdose" class="extiw" title="w:drug overdose">drug overdose</a> deaths per 100,000 population by state, US 2016. There were <b>64,070</b> overdose deaths in the USA in <b>2016</b> according to <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/health_policy/monthly-drug-overdose-death-estimates.pdf">a table</a> from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centers_for_Disease_Control_and_Prevention" class="extiw" title="w:Centers for Disease Control and Prevention">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention</a>.<br><p>From the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/statedeaths.html">source page</a> for the map: "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioids" class="extiw" title="w:Opioids">Opioids</a>—prescription and illicit—are the main driver of drug overdose deaths. Opioids were involved in <b>42,249</b> deaths in <b>2016,</b> and opioid overdose deaths were five times higher in 2016 than 1999. In 2016, the five states with the highest rates of death due to drug overdose were West Virginia (52.0 per 100,000), Ohio (39.1 per 100,000), New Hampshire (39.0 per 100,000), Pennsylvania (37.9 per 100,000) and Kentucky (33.5 per 100,000)."<br></p>
Another source for the 42,249 number of opioid deaths: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://d14rmgtrwzf5a.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/od2017-slide04.jpg">Timeline bar chart with 2016 number of deaths in the US from opioids</a>. Originally at <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.drugabuse.gov/related-topics/trends-statistics/overdose-death-rates">Overdose Death Rates</a>. By <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institute_on_Drug_Abuse" class="extiw" title="w:National Institute on Drug Abuse">National Institute on Drug Abuse</a> (NIDA)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Timeshifter" title="User:Timeshifter">User:Timeshifter</a> cropped the map, and edited the text at the top, using freeware <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IrfanView" class="extiw" title="w:IrfanView">IrfanView</a>. Map image came via "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/print_screen" class="extiw" title="w:print screen">print screen</a>" key on a keyboard.
30 November 2017. Date map was first uploaded to Commons.
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/statedeaths.html">Drug Overdose Deaths</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centers_for_Disease_Control_and_Prevention" class="extiw" title="w:Centers for Disease Control and Prevention">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Center_for_Injury_Prevention_and_Control" class="extiw" title="w:National Center for Injury Prevention and Control">National Center for Injury Prevention and Control</a>. Click on a map year. The numbers are in the data table below the map. Numbers of deaths for each state, and the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/age_adjustment" class="extiw" title="w:age adjustment">age-adjusted</a></b> rates of death per 100,000 population for each state. You can also place your mouse cursor on a state on the map to get the data.