Leading drugs involved in overdose deaths in the U.S. in 2011 and 2016
This statistic shows the number of deaths from the leading fifteen drugs involved in overdose deaths in the U.S. in 2016 compared to 2011. In 2016, fentanyl was involved in the most overdose deaths. However, in 2011, fentanyl was the tenth most common drug involved in overdose deaths, with oxycodone involved in the most deaths that year.