National provisional counts include deaths occurring within the 50 states and the District of Columbia as of the date specified and may not include all deaths that occurred during a given time period. Counts for the most recent final annual data are provided for comparison. This data visualization presents provisional counts for drug overdose deaths based on a current flow of mortality data in the National Vital Statistics System. Please see the Technical Notes of the dashboard for more information. Additional states will be added as they meet data quality and timeliness requirements. 12 Month-ending Provisional Number of Drug Overdose Deaths by Drug or Drug Class.” As a result of this re-evaluation, trends for additional states are presented in Figure 2. Recent improvements in timeliness and data quality have prompted a re-evaluation of the length of time that data quality requirements have had to be met for states to be included in “Figure 2.
Percent of records pending investigation.
