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- Opioid Facts and Statistics | HHS.govHHS continues to support science- and community-based efforts to combat the opioid crisis. Download the graphic. More than 760,000 people have died since 1999 from a drug overdose. Nearly 75% of drug overdose deaths in 2020 involved an opioid. Explore drug overdose epidemic data from the CDC.
- Understanding the Opioid Overdose Epidemic - CDCThere have been three distinct waves of increases in opioid overdose deaths over the last 25 years, with each wave driven by different types of opioids. Increasing communities' overdose prevention and response support, capacity, and education may help save lives.
- The Opioid Crisis - NIH HEAL InitiativeAddressing the underpinnings of the opioid crisis – use and misuse of opioids, opioid use disorder, overdose deaths, and lack of effective pain management – is an urgent public health challenge in the United States.
- What led to the opioid crisis—and how to fix itFebruary 9, 2022 – Without urgent intervention, 1.2 million people in the U.S. and Canada will die from opioid overdoses by the end of the decade, in addition to the more than 600,000 who have died since 1999, according to a February 2 report from the Stanford-Lancet Commission
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