Spotlight on the Opioid Crisis
By BrightView BrightView Meet The Editorial Team Published: September 21, 2018 Updated: September 21, 2018 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released preliminary data in 2017 which stated that overdose deaths increased by almost 10%, taking the lives of more than 70,000 Americans. Out of all of those deaths, about 48,000 were opioid overdose deaths. Also notable among those 48,000 deaths was that the greatest increase was related to fentanyl and other synthetic opioids. Following The Opioid Epidemic If you look at trends in the opioid epidemic a year…
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