Age-Adjusted Opioid-related Death Rate by Year

Comparing the opioid-related death rate of Massachusetts to the nation overall.

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Sources: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics. Multiple Cause of Death 1999-2014 on CDC WONDER Online Database, released 2015. Massachusetts Registry of Vital Records and Statistics, Massachusetts Department of Public Health.

Footnotes

  1. Cases were defined using the International Classification of Disease, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) codes for mortality. The following codes were selected from the underlying cause of death field to identify poisonings/overdoses: X40-X49, Y10-Y19. All multiple cause of death fields were then used to identify an opioid-related death: T40.0, T40.1, T40.2, T40.3, T40.4, and T40.6.
  2. The Massachusetts age-adjusted opioid-related death rate was provided by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
  3. The national level data was extracted from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics Wonder Databases.