Keywords: US timeline. Prescription opioid pain reliever deaths.svg en National Overdose Deaths ”Number of Deaths from Prescription Opioid Pain Relievers The figure above is a bar chart showing the total number of U S overdose deaths involving opioid pain relievers from 2001 to 2014 The chart is overlayed by a line graph showing the number of deaths by females and males From 2001 to 2014 there was a 3 4-fold increase in the total number of deaths 2016-12-26 - date SVG file created and uploaded based on File US timeline Prescription opioid pain reliever deaths jpg which is based on https //d14rmgtrwzf5a cloudfront net/sites/default/files/cdc-us-overdose-deaths-2014_jr-2 jpg Chart from http //www drugabuse gov/related-topics/trends-statistics/overdose-death-rates Overdose Death Rates By National Institute on Drug Abuse NIDA I created this SVG file based on the following and changed the yellow line to green because the RGB yellow did not provide much contrast against a white background Original by National Institute on Drug Abuse And User Timeshifter who cropped the original chart and added USA to it put the adapted chart under the same public domain license See Commons Convert tables and charts to wiki code or image files and the section about adding text to chart images other versions PD-USGov Drug-related death statistics |