America's Opioid-Use Epidemic: 5 Startling Facts

Friday, September 23, 2016 - 19:21 in Health & Medicine

America is in the midst of an opioid-abuse epidemic, which has caused a startling rise in overdoses and deaths from these highly addictive drugs. Here’s a look at the epidemic by the numbers.

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