Tag: drug overdoses
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Opioid Crisis: How COVID-19 Has Accelerated Addiction Risk
What happens when two epidemics meet? The opioid epidemic has been one of the most growing public health emergencies in American history. As such, it wasn’t long before the top two public health emergencies met and created a bigger crisis. According to provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released in…
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Opioid Epidemic: Deaths From Overdoses Dropped in 2018
The opioid epidemic has plagued the United States over the past three decades with reports of addictions and escalating deaths from drug overdoses. In fact, opioids were responsible for shaving 0.36 years off Americans’ life expectancy in 2016 and this number is higher than the one caused by guns or motor vehicle accidents. However, recent reports…