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Overdose deaths in the US (1999-2017)
The number of fatalities per year in the US from drug overdoses has more than quadrupled in the past two decades. Much of the recent, sharp increase has been attributed to misuse of the opioid fentanyl. Musicians Prince and Tom Petty were among the fentanyl-related fatalities. Image: NIH.
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