TCT-IMM-016 · Drugs
300,000 Americans were dying from drugs each year
Statement and context
“Three hundred thousand people are dying a year, and I think the number is probably more than that.”
2024-06-06, campaign event, Phoenix, Arizona.
What the evidence shows
CDC’s final count for 2022 was about 108,000 overdose deaths, followed by roughly 107,000 provisional deaths in 2023; even estimates that account for undercounting did not approach 300,000. Most overdose deaths involved synthetic opioids such as illicit fentanyl, but the quoted total was close to three times the official figure.
False
Sources and attribution
Tracker research synthesis; inspect the linked evidence and research record.