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Valkrie99on Feb 13, 2018 7:00am
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EMC...right place at the right time.
EMC...right place at the right time. Economic cost of the opioid crisis: $1 trillion and growing faster
- The economic toll of the opioid crisis is estimated to have topped $1 trillion from 2001 through 2017, a new report says.
- The economic fallout from the epidemic of heroin and prescription painkiller abuse is on track to cost $500 billion from 2018 to 2020 alone.
- More than 62,000 Americans are believed to have fatally overdosed from opioids in 2017.