Smoking has surpassed injection as the most deadly form of drug consumption. Getty Images In the past, drugs like fentanyl were mostly injected, but now users are starting to smoke them instead.

Specifically, the percentage of overdose deaths that involved smoking increased almost 74% – from 13.3% to 23.1% – between 2020 and 2022. During the same time period, the percentage of ...

US US study finds more people die after smoking drugs like fentanyl than injecting them Illicit fentanyl has increasingly been cut into heroin and is driving the U.S. overdose epidemic ...

More deaths caused by overdosing have now been linked to people smoking drugs, as opposed to injections, according to a recent government study. The study, published Thursday by the Centers for ...

February 19, 2024 More fatal overdoses now caused by smoking drugs than injecting them, CDC says Fentanyl continues to fuel the surge in deaths, but nationwide trends appear to show different ...

(CNN) — The percentage of overdose deaths linked to smoking drugs rose sharply in recent years, overtaking injection as the leading route of drug use involved in such deaths, according to a new ...