Sentences with phrase «opioid overdoses killed»

Prescription opioid overdoses killed more than 165,000 Americans between 1999 and 2014, and the health and social costs of abusing such drugs are estimated to be as much as $ 55 billion a year.

Toxicology tests have confirmed opioid overdoses killed 421 people in Nassau and Suffolk counties last year.

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U.S. life expectancy has actually fallen for two years in a row — and while the opioid addiction and overdose epidemic has a part to play in that, overall, the diseases that kill Americans have been killing a larger share of them.

Overdoses involving opioids killed more than 28,000 people in the nation in 2014, and more than half of those deaths were from prescription opioids.

«Last year alone, in communities all across the country, including many in New York, 1,400,000 more Americans started abusing opioids, and every day, 44 more people are killed by an overdose,» Gillibrand said.

When people die from overdoses of opioids, whether prescription pain medications or street drugs, it is the suppression of breathing that almost always kills them.

When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration screens new opioid drugs it should better anticipate how people might abuse them in the real world, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine warns in a major report issued Thursday on the country's opioid crisis, which kills 91 people a day — often via overdoses on prescription drugs.