Drug Addiction and Opioid Abuse and Overdose in the United States (1472 words, 7 pages)
According to the Center for Disease Control CDC, in 2015 52,404 people died from drug overdoses, that is an average of 143 deaths each day. Of those, 71, or more than half are from opioids, also reported in the same year that more than 650,000 opioid prescriptions were dispensed (CDC, ...
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