How Data Can Help in the Fight Against the Opioid Epidemic in the United States

The United States is in the midst of an opioid epidemic 20 years in the making. From 1999 to 2017, nearly 400,000 people died from overdosing on prescription or illicit opioids.The opioid epidemic shows little signs of slowing down: in 2018, 10.3 million people aged 12 and older have misused opioids in the United States.

Source : https://www.datainnovation.org/2019/11/how-data-can-help-in-the-fight-against-the-opioid-epidemic-in-the-united-states/

Date : November 18, 2019 at 06:45AM

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