Between the years 2020 and 2021, there was a 15 percent increase in the number of deaths that were caused by drug overdoses in the state of Virginia.
A new study that was conducted by the Department of Health in the State of Virginia projects that there will be an increase in the total number of drug overdose deaths in the year 2021.
According to the study conducted during the fourth quarter, there would be an increase of 15 percent in the number of deaths caused by overdoses in 2021. According to the reports, 2,033 persons lost their lives as a direct result of synthetic fentanyl. In the year 2021, opiates and heroin were the primary causes of fatal drug overdoses in the state of Virginia. Cocaine was the third leading cause, accounting for 801 of those fatalities.
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When it comes to drug policy, the opioid crisis has emerged as a primary point of contention as a direct result of the policies enacted by the administration of President Joe Biden. Drug overdose deaths are expected to increase by 28.5% between the years 2020 and 2021, as reported by the CDC. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that during the years 2020 and 2021, there was an increase of around 26 percent in the number of people who died as a result of an opioid overdose, reaching a total of 75,673 deaths.
The goal of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), which created “National Fentanyl Awareness Day” in May of 2010, was to increase public awareness of deaths in the United States that were caused by fentanyl.
