Share of infant drug-involved deaths in the U.S., 2015-2017, by maternal ethnicity
From 2015 to 2017, mothers of infants, whose death was drug-involved, were most likely to be non-Hispanic white mothers. Drug involvement could be either the underlying cause (e.g. poisoning by drugs) or a contributing cause (e.g. drugs found in blood) of death. This statistic displays the percentage of infant drug-involved deaths compared to infant deaths from all other causes in the United States from 2015 to 2017, by ethnicity of mother.