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How drug mortality rates vary across the United States

March 27, 2018

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A new study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine looks into county-level differences in drug-related mortality rates across the United States and finds a range of socioeconomic factors that influence them, including family distress and a county’s main source of income.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) say that 515,060 people in the United States died from a drug overdose and “other drug-related causes” in 2006–2015. Over 42 percent of these involved opioids.

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