Even in best-case scenario, opioid overdose deaths will keep rising until 2022
Friday, February 1, 2019 - 15:10
in Health & Medicine
In the nation’s opioid epidemic, the carnage is far from over. A new projection of opioid overdose death rates suggests that even if there is steady progress in reducing prescription narcotic abuse across the country, the number of fatal overdoses — which reached 70,237 in 2017 — will rise sharply...