One in Five Young American Adults Felled by Opioids: Study
The chance of dying in the US due to an opioid overdose is higher today than that of dying in an accident, but the burden falls heaviest on young adults aged 15-34, according to a 15-year analysis of US mortality numbers through 2016 posted in JAMA Network Open, an online section of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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