Newsweek (2/27, Gander) reports researchers at the University of Rochester examined “data on people who died of drug overdoses between 1999 to 2016 from a database kept by the National Center for Health Statistics in the U.S., which included a total of 632,331 cases,” and concluded that “the number of deaths linked to opioids in the U.S. over the past two decades could be almost 30 percent higher than previously thought.” The researchers published their findings in the journal Addiction.
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— “Opioid-related deaths in the u.s. could be far higher than previously thought, study suggests, “Kashmira Gander, Newsweek, February 27, 2020