That’s approximately the number of people who died in the United States in 2022 from a drug overdose. Included in this number are deaths of adolescents aged 10-19, in this age range, there was a 94% increase.
During 2008-2011, an average of 1.1 million emergency room visits were made each year for drug poisoning. That’s 35.4 people out of 10000 persons in the country. It’s only gotten worse since.
