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English: "Figure 5. National Overdose Deaths Involving Heroin, by Other Opioid Involvement—Number Among All Ages, 1999-2021. The figure above is a bar and line graph showing the total number of U.S. overdose deaths involving heroin from 1999 to 2021. Drug overdose deaths involving heroin rose from 1,960 in 1999 to 15,482 in 2017 before trending down to 13,165 deaths in 2020 and 9,173 deaths in 2021. The bars are overlaid by lines showing the number of deaths involving heroin in combination with synthetic opioids other than methadone (primarily fentanyl) or without any other opioid from 1999 to 2021 (Source: CDC WONDER)."
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Source Overdose Death Rates . By National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). 1999-2021 chart . 1999-2019 chart . 2002-2017 chart . 2002-2015 chart . 2001-2014 chart .
Author National Institute on Drug Abuse . Some versions of the chart were cropped, and have had "USA" added to them. Freeware IrfanView , etc. can be used. See Commons:Convert tables and charts to wiki code or image files , and the section about adding text to chart images.

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