Enhanced State Opioid Overdose Surveillance Factsheet

Drug overdoses have dramatically increased over the last two decades, and deaths from overdose have increased sharply since 2013. In 2016, more than 63,000 Americans died from drug overdoses. Of those overdose deaths, around 2 in 3 have involved a prescription or illicit opioid.

This fact sheet published by Centers for Disease Control Prevention outlines the Enhanced State Opioid Overdose Surveillance (ESOOS) program.