Emergency department visits for opioid overdoses rise by 30 percent in a year

 

March 7, 2018
by Laura Santhanam
PBS NewsHour

In his organization’s recent report, Pain in the Nation, Miller, along with the Trust for America’s Health, called for a national resilience strategy to address “deaths of despair,” that in 2015 amounted to 127,500 deaths driven by drug overdoses, alcohol and suicide.

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