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Monday, February 25, 2019

American Opioids Deaths Have Quadrupled In 18 Years

The opioid crisis is the most significant public health issue affecting the US at the moment. Opioid-related deaths across the country have risen more than 4-fold in 18 years, from 2.9 per 100,000 people in 1999 to 13.2 per 100,000 people in 2016, according to a new report.

More than 351,000 Americans have died of opioids between 1999 and 2016, according to the report published Friday by Mathew Kiang, ScD, Center for Population Health Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, and other researchers from the University of Toronto.

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3 comments:

  1. Any distributing opioids should recieve the death penalty.

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    1. check out maintenance dept @ Salisbury University....

      get his prescription opiates at a low cost

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  2. Nature eliminates the weak and stupid.

    You'll never change THAT. The method and form may change, but it will always be that way.

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