The CDC research shows that an estimated 68,557 people died in 2018, down from 72,224 people in 2017. Deaths from natural and semi-synthetic opioids - painkillers like morphine, codeine and oxycodone - fell by 14.5%, the sharpest drop for any drug category.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that the total "economic burden”
of prescription opioid misuse alone in the United States is $78.5 billion a year
economic burden
3. "economic burden" including the costs of healthcare,
lost productivity, addiction treatment,
and criminal justice involvement
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Reference:
Florence CS, Zhou C, Luo F, Xu L. The Economic Burden of Prescription
Opioid Overdose, Abuse, and Dependence in the United States, 2013. Med
Care. 2016;54(10):901-906.
4. Every day, more than 130 people in
the United States die after overdosing
on opioids.
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Reference:
CDC/NCHS, National vital statistics system, Mortality. CDC WONDER,
Atlanta, GA: US Department of Health and Human Services, CDC.
5. The early data predicts that there were 68,500
drug overdose deaths in the US in 2018
down from 72,000 the previous year. (2017)
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