Drug overdose deaths among American women have more than tripled since 1999

For many decades, drugs of abuse were a menace that mostly threatened the lives of men. In 1999, fewer than 1 in 25,000 adult women in the United States died of a drug overdose, and childbirth was twice as deadly.No more. Drug overdoses have become a prodigious thief of female lives in the U.S....

Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - January 11, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Melissa Healy Source Type: news