Drug overdose death rate senior men in the U.S. 2019-2020, by ethnicity
The drug overdose death rate among men aged 65 to 74 in the United States in 2020 was 19.2 per 100,000 population. Synthetic opioids such as fentanyl are the leading cause of drug overdose death in the United States. This statistics shows the drug overdose death rate for men aged 65 to 74 in the United States in 2019 and 2020, by race/ethnicity.