This 700,000 number is the same number recorded by the CDC, Center for Disease Control of the USA.
https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/epidemic/index.html
Who or where are these opioid drugs coming from into the USA ever since 1999?
More than 700,000 Americans died from drug overdoses from 1999 to 2017, about 10% of them in 2017 alone, according to a new report published by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In total, there were a staggering 70,237 drug overdose deaths last year, which is more deaths than all US military fatal casualties of the Vietnam War. Opioids were involved in 67.8%, or 47,600 of those deaths. Of those opioid-related overdose deaths, 59.8% of them, or 28,466, were due to synthetic opioids.
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That is a stunning number and oh so sad. Thanks for speaking the truth. Happy new year.
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