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people will die from a drug overdose TODAY – put that number in perspective: that’s equivalent to a fatal airplane crash happening every day. – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Drug overdose is the leading cause of accidental death in the United States

– American Society of Addiction Medicine, 2016

One person dies approximately every 7-8 minutes from a drug overdose in the United States

– Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

More than 72,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2017,
setting a new record

– Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2017

In 2012, health care providers wrote 259 million prescriptions for opioid pain medication, enough for every adult in the United States to have a bottle of pills

– Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2012

One in five visits to a family physician in the United States results in a prescription for opioids

– Archives of Internal Medicine, 2011

56% of physicians with patients on long-term opioid therapy do not realize the extent of the prescription drug abuse problem in the U.S.

– Pain Medicine News, 2015

84% of physicians with patients on long-term opioid therapy said definitions for misuse, abuse, and diversion are poorly understood by the medical community

– Pain Medicine News, 2015

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