The drug overdose epidemic will peak at about 50,000 annual deaths in 2017 before declining to a non-epidemic state of approximately 6,000 deaths in the year 2035 — at roughly the same rate seen before the start of the epidemic, researchers predict.
The drug overdose epidemic will peak at about 50,000 annual deaths in 2017 before declining to a non-epidemic state of approximately 6,000 deaths in the year 2035 — at roughly the same rate seen before the start of the epidemic, researchers predict.