Mortality due to drugs increased by 60 %
In 2020, the number of Russians who died from the causes associated with drugs increased from the Rosstat data . The first attention to the situation was “Open Media”. In 2020, in Russia, 7316 people died from the causes of drugs, of which the majority of townspeople, 648 people - the rural population. Together, this is on average 60 % more than in 2016-2019, when from 4.4 to 4.8 thousand people died. The increase in mortality is both among the urban and the rural population.