SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) -- With concerns about methamphetimine and prescription opoid abuse, statistics show that drug related deaths have trended upward in the past decade in South Dakota.
However, according to KELO.com News' review of Centers for Disease Control data for South Dakota, deaths related to alchol have increased at a greater rate than those by drugs.
To keep the numbers in perspective, however, drug and alcohol related deaths still make up less than a percent each of deaths in the state.
From 2005 to 2015, the CDC data shows an increase in drug induced deaths, from 6.1 per 100,000 population to 8.4, an increase of just under 38 percent.
In the same period, CDC data shows an increase in alcohol induced deaths, from 11.2 per 100,000 population to 17.7, an increase of just over 58 percent.
Again, in the same ten year period, deaths from all other causes dropped by almost 2.5 percent, from 896.5 deaths to 874.5 per 100,000 population.
The CDC data is available here.