Drug and opioid-involved overdose deaths - United States, 2017-2018 - Wilson N, Kariisa M, Seth P, Smith H, Davis NL.

Of the 70,237 drug overdose deaths in the United States in 2017, approximately two thirds (47,600) involved an opioid (1). In recent years, increases in opioid-involved overdose deaths have been driven primarily by deaths involving synthetic opioids other ...
Source: SafetyLit - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news