The previous year’s figures were 107,622 overlijdens as a result of an overdose of drugs in the country with 330 million residents. That’s about 15 percent more than that in 2020. “It’s on a normal basis”, Aldus Rahul Gupta, director of the national drug bestrijdingsbeleid van het Witte Huis.
The drug epidemic in the VS was said to be a response to the use of opioïden.
Earlier in November, the CDC had reported that the VS had already exceeded the limit of 100,000 drugs for two years.
