While coverage of the country's opioid epidemic has taken a backseat to the coronavirus this year, new numbers from the CDC forecast a grim year for fatal overdoses.
, when there were 16,682 overdose deaths, 19,416 Americans died of drug overdoses between January and March of 2020.
White men between the ages of 25 and 64 were more likely to die of drug overdoses than other demographics.This illustration image shows tablets of opioid painkiller Oxycodon delivered on medical prescription taken, Sept. 18, 2019, in Washington, DC.
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