That year, Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County ranked ninth, with a rate of 8.8 overdose deaths per 100,000 residents, a fraction of its 2016 rate of 50.2 per 100,000, which led the nation. Most of the other counties on the 1999 list-including those representing the boroughs of the Bronx, Manhattan, and Brooklyn in New York City-are not on the 2016 list.įor the 44 counties examined by the CDC in 1999, the median rate was 5.7 deaths per 100,000 residents, less than half the 13 per 100,000 found in the most recent numbers. Still, the rate was much lower then at 18.7 per 100,000 residents. In 1999, the first year the CDC collected county numbers on overdose deaths, Philadelphia had the highest drug death rate among counties with populations of at least 1 million. That number includes people who were not Philadelphia residents but does not include Philadelphians who died elsewhere.īeing near the top of this list is nothing new for Philadelphia. There were 907 drug deaths in the city that year, recorded by Philadelphia’s Department of Public Health, mostly linked to opioids. According to the agency, 719 Philadelphians died of drug overdoses in 2016. The CDC bases the rate on the number of residents who died from drug overdoses during a given year-regardless of where the overdoses occurred.
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