Fact check: Gov. Greg Abbott says fentanyl is leading cause of death for Americans 18-45
from Families Against Fentanyl, a nonprofit started by Jim Rauh, who lost his son to a fentanyl overdose.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is in charge of collecting data to reveal the leading causes of death across the nation. The CDC doesn’t keep tabs on which drugs or narcotics cause the most fatalities nationwide.
"If one were to break out the unintentional injuries category to make the drug categories rankable, the leading cause for those 18-to-45 would be unintentional drug overdose due to other synthetic narcotics," Tsai said. "It’s very tricky because medical examiners around the country have very different ways of looking, of testing," Doscher said."So, we really cannot say."
Steven Rich, data editor with the the Post’s investigative team and a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, combed through the CDC’s data and thousands of reports from medical examiners’ offices across the country to create a new data set. "One of the things that I want to emphasize here is that the CDC collects good data, it’s just that their data is limited by this international code system, which is good," Rich said."That is a very good thing for data because it makes data comparable to other countries. But it also makes it so that the CDC doesn’t collect, specifically, fentanyl deaths.
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