In the United States of America, an anti-edding of deaths from drug use is installed. Drug overdose was the cause of death more than 100 thousand people per year. Government statistics leads The Washington Post.
The period during which the number of deaths from drug overdose passed for a hundred thousand people, coincides with the beginning of a coronavirus pandemic – from April 2020 to April 2021. Compared to the previous same period, the increase was 28.5 percent. The spread of COVID-19 in the US is called among the reasons for the deterioration of the situation.
Most of all the deaths among Americans recorded in the historic region at the Alpupalachi Mountains. This is primarily the states of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama.
heads the list by the number of fentanyl opioid deaths. This artificial heroin substitute developed in the 60s for medical purposes. Fentanyl in 2021 died more people than from any other substance in 2016.
In 2019, Lenta.ru published a large special project about the distribution of drug addiction in Russia and the organization of illegal turnover of prohibited substances in the country.