Current Statistics

  • In 2022, 72,800 Americans died from fentanyl, a slight increase from 2021 with an estimated 71,000 deaths. That's 199 fentanyl deaths a day.

  • Currently, fentanyl is the number one cause of death in the U.S. for ages 18-45, since 2020.

  • Fentanyl deaths accounted for more than 80% of all drug deaths among California teens in 2022.

For ages 14-23 fentanyl deaths increased by 140%
from 2018 to 2021 in the U.S.,
with 1984 deaths in 2018 jumping to 4765
deaths in 2021. The deaths for this age group in
2019 were 2352 and 2020 were 4325.

Total fentanyl deaths in four years 2018 - 2021
for this age group was a shocking 13,426.