MMWR Early Release: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, December 14, 2021: Trends in and Characteristics of Drug Overdose Deaths Involving Illicitly Manufactured Fentanyls -- United States, 2019-2020   [open pdf - 294KB]

The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) Series is prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). [It] is the agency's primary vehicle for scientific publication of timely, reliable, authoritative, accurate, objective, and useful public health information and recommendations. This Early Release issue of MMWR contains the following article: "Trends in and Characteristics of Drug Overdose Deaths Involving Illicitly Manufactured Fentanyls -- United States, 2019-2020." Notifiable Diseases and Mortality Tables from MMWR can be accessed at the following link [http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index2021.html].