Scrutiny of CDC Overdose Death Data Yields Explosive Results
Why did CDC ignore signals its methodology was flawed for a decade or longer?
On March 24, 2021, a scathing commentary was released by two researchers calling the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) overdose death statistics over the last decade firmly into question.
The scope of the problem with CDC’s unintentional poisoning statistics, expounded upon by these two researchers in regard to claims by several CDC analysts back in 2018, pose far-reaching implications, not just regarding the integrity of CDC’s data, but also its competence in spearheading comprehensive efforts to track and mitigate the ongoing overdose crisis.
From the abstract:
“In a 2018 report titled, Quantifying the Epidemic of Prescription Opioid Overdose Deaths, four senior analysts of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), including the head of the Epidemiology and Surveillance Branch, acknowledged for the first time that the number of prescription opioid overdose deaths reported by the CDC in 2016…
