Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.) is requesting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to share updated data and estimates on fentanyl overdose deaths.
The House Homeland Security Committee chairman wrote a letter to CDC Director Rochelle Walensky on March 1 asking for the most recent statistics on fentanyl and fentanyl-related overdose deaths from 2022.
“The latest provisional count provided by the CDC is from a 12-month period ending in September 2022,” Green wrote in the letter. “It has now been five months since any new data has been published.”
The lack of timely data, Green wrote, hinders the ability of Congress to gain a clear understanding of the drug epidemic and how it is evolving….