North America continues to experience the highest drug-related mortality rate in the world, accounting for 1-in-4 drug-related deaths globally.
Source: The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) ‘World Drug Report 2019’
In January 2017, the Centre for Disease Control has estimated that the number of people in the USA who had died from overdose in the 12-month period prior to January 2017 was 64,070.
Source: The Centre for Disease Control ‘Provisional Counts of Drug Overdose deaths, as of 8/6/2017’. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/health_policy/monthly-drug-overdose-death-estimates.pdf
Source: The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) ‘World Drug Report 2019’
In January 2017, the Centre for Disease Control has estimated that the number of people in the USA who had died from overdose in the 12-month period prior to January 2017 was 64,070.
Source: The Centre for Disease Control ‘Provisional Counts of Drug Overdose deaths, as of 8/6/2017’. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/health_policy/monthly-drug-overdose-death-estimates.pdf
August 31st is Overdose Awareness Day
Join us for a FREE film to honor lost loved ones and to educate ourselves on addiction and what we can do to support those who struggle with it.
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The risk of an opioid overdose is greater than you might think. Opioid overdoses happen to anyone and kill tens of thousands of people every year. In 2018, 543 people in Colorado died because of an opioid overdose, and opioid overdoses killed 47,600 Americans in 2017.
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