Overdose deaths could increase with ‘changing nature’ of opioid epidemic

Wednesday, February 6, 2019 - 08:50 in Health & Medicine

The opioid epidemic in the United States could be responsible for 700,000 overdose deaths between 2016 and 2025, according to a new study published today in JAMA Network Open. “Preventing people from misusing prescription opioids is important and could help prevent some overdose deaths in the long term, but our study shows that the effect would […]

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