Drug epidemic likely ‘killing more Americans than we think’
Thursday, January 16, 2020 - 09:30
in Health & Medicine
As the drug epidemic began to unfold in the United States, deaths classified as drug-related for 15- to 64-year-olds hit 9% in 2016, up from about 4% seven years prior. But new research published in PLOS ONE from the University of Pennsylvania and Georgetown University suggests that drug-associated mortality in this country is actually more than double that. “It’s obvious that […]