As the opioid addiction crisis continues to lay waste to American life, a new survey finds that nearly a third of U.S. adults now know someone who's died of a drug overdose.
crisis continues to lay waste to American life, a new survey finds that nearly a third of U.S. adults now know someone who's died of a drug overdose.
Expanded into the full U.S. population, that's the equivalent of nearly 83 million people now personally affected by such tragedies, said a research team led by Alene Kennedy-Hendricks. “Although large numbers of U.S. adults are bereaved due to overdose, they may not be as visible as other groups who have lost loved ones to less stigmatized health issues," Kennedy-Hendricks explained in a Hopkins news release., the death toll from drug overdoses has already passed the 1 million mark since the 1990s. The crisis is only accelerating, with over 100,000 lives lost to overdose each year over the past few years.
However, even among better-off Americans -- those making over $100,000 per year -- one in four said they'd faced a similar tragedy.
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