We must do more. Drug overdose deaths continue to increase in the United States.
- From 1999 to 2017, more than 700,000 people have died from a drug overdose.
- Around 68% of the more than 70,200 drug overdose deaths in 2017 involved an opioid.
- In 2017, the number of overdose deaths involving opioids (including prescription opioids and illegal opioids like heroin and illicitly manufactured fentanyl) was 6 times higher than in 1999.
- On average, 130 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose.
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White Paper: Prescribing Opioids: Re-Centering the Pendulum
http://info.mcg.com/rs/658-WJS-398/images/MCG%20White%20Paper%20-%20Prescribing%20Opioids.pdf