A new federal data analysis drills into the urban-rural divide of America's continually evolving drug crisis, showing varied victim and drug patterns in the two areas but similar trends in rising death rates.

For the study, researchers with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics used cause-of-death data and a deceased person's county of residence to determine that the age-adjusted rate of drug overdose deaths grew significantly in both urban and rural areas from 1999 to 2017.

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