Nearly 108,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2022, according to final federal figures released Thursday by the CDC. [CDC]

Over the last two decades, the number of U.S. overdose deaths has risen almost every year and continued to break annual records -- making it the worst overdose epidemic in American history.

The official number for 2022 was 107,941, the CDC said, which is about 1% higher than the nearly 107,000 overdose deaths in 2021.

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