Sentences with phrase «opioid overdoses claimed»

In 2015 opioid overdoses claimed 91 lives a day in the U.S..

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PolitifactNY (in other words, Dan Clark) debunks Cuomo's claim that we are «losing as many people to heroin and opioid overdoses as we lost to the AIDS epidemic at its peak.»

Utilizing Optum, a large national commercial insurance claims database with data on 50 million individuals over a 12 year period, the researchers identified nearly 3,000 individuals who were prescribed opioids for chronic pain that had been treated in the emergency department and / or as an inpatient following a nonfatal opioid overdose.

Claims that medical cannabis use has reduced opioid overdose deaths in the United States have been challenged by a University -LSB-...]