Fatalities from Prescription Opioid Overdoses

Description

Injury from poisoning exists under several Injury Intents: unintentional (accidental), intentional self-harm, assault, undetermined and adverse effect and underdosing. Only injuries in the first four categories are reported here combined. The data show rates per 100,000 people in order to standardize between areas with different population levels. Except for age specific rates, we use age-adjusted rates because they take into account where one age group dominates a population and thus are more representative. We use diagnosis by hospital records for non-fatal injury and cause of death from death certificates for fatal injury information.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Derivation Deaths with any of the following ICD-10 codes as an underlying cause of death:            X40-X44: Accidental poisonings by drugs            X60-X64: Intentional self-poisoning by drugs            X85: Assault by drug poisoning            Y10-Y14: Drug poisoning of undetermined intent AND with any of the following ICD-10 contributing cause-of-death codes*:            T40.2: Natural and semisynthetic opioids            T40.3: Methadone            T40.4: Synthetic opioids, other than methadone https://fortress.wa.gov/doh/wtn/WTNPortal/home/#!q0=1432

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  • opioids
  • drugs
  • fatalities
  • public-health
  • deaths

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  • Local Government

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