Drug Induced Deaths - Archive
Data and Resources
Additional Info
For Crude Rate, total population. For AAMR, calculations are provided by Publisher and are more complex.
Drug Induced Death reports the number and rate of drug-induced deaths.
Year,Measure Type,Variable
Deaths in which drugs may have been a contributing but not primary cause are not included. The age-adjusted mortality rate (AAMR) controls for the impact of different age structures in order to better evaluate risk levels that are independent of the age composition of the population. Connecticut Department of Public Health collects data annually. CTdata.org carries three year aggregations of annual data.
Number;Crude Rate (per 100,000);AAMR (per 100,000)
For Crude Rate, number of drug induced deaths, as reported by source. For AAMR, calculations are provided by Publisher and are more complex.
Connecticut Department of Public Health
To calculate the crude death rate, the number of drug induced deaths is divided by the total population and multiplied by 100,000. AAMR calculations are provided by Publisher and are more complex.
Drug Induced Deaths
1999-2001;2002-2004;2005-2007;2007-2009