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language:
  - en
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  DQS Drug overdose death rates, by drug type, sex, age, race, and Hispanic
  origin: United States from CDC WONDER
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  - hhs
  - cdc
  - asian
  - men
  - opioid
  - white
  - women

DQS Drug overdose death rates, by drug type, sex, age, race, and Hispanic origin: United States from CDC WONDER

Description

Data on drug overdose death rates in the United States, by age, sex, race, Hispanic origin, and drug type. Data are from Health, United States. SOURCE: National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System, Mortality File. Search, visualize, and download these and other estimates from over 120 health topics with the NCHS Data Query System (DQS), available from: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/dataquery/index.htm.

Dataset Details

Publisher: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Temporal Coverage: 1999/2021
Last Modified: 2025-04-21
Contact: National Center for Health Statistics ([email protected])

Source

Original data can be found at: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus

Usage

You can load this dataset using:

from datasets import load_dataset
 dataset = load_dataset('HHS-Official/dqs-drug-overdose-death-rates-by-drug-type-sex-age')

License

This dataset is licensed under https://www.usa.gov/government-works