Opioid reporting
Search articles from the past 14 days. Publishers may report the same event more than once.
Five-year news archive
Dated Google News searches across the last five years.
Monthly bars count retrieved headlines that pass a keyword screen. Publishers may cover one event many times.
CDC mortality
U.S. deaths involving any opioid, recorded by place of occurrence.
The CDC counts deaths during a 12-month-ending period.
The CDC adjusts predicted counts for incomplete reporting. The U.S. total covers the 50 states and DC and excludes Puerto Rico.
Each point counts deaths during the preceding 12 months, so neighboring points overlap. Compare the same ending month across years. CDC may revise recent counts when it receives more records.
Read the values in a table
| Period ending | Predicted provisional | Reported provisional |
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Sources and limits
The refresh scripts search Google News RSS and keep each result’s publication date, publisher, headline, and link. Dated searches fill the five-year archive. The script splits searches when Google returns 100 results, then marks months that still reach that limit. Headline keyword rules assign topics and flag likely public health reporting. You need to check relevance and confirm reported policy against a primary record.
The CDC series uses predicted provisional counts from the National Vital Statistics System. News retrieval counts describe the headlines this search returned when I ran it. Google indexing may change, and the counts cannot establish total coverage, opioid use, overdose incidence, or the number of distinct events.