Prevalence of substance use disorders Drug addiction statistics Between 1999 and 2020 nearly one million American citizens suffered fatal opioid overdoses In 2017 alone, 70,237 deaths from opioid overdose occurred In 2017 about 130 people died from overdose each day and these numbers have gotten even more alarming in 2020-2021 Since 1999 deaths from drug…

According to the CDC, “Over 81,000 drug overdose deaths occurred in the United States in the 12 months ending in May 2020, the highest number of overdose deaths ever recorded in a 12-month period.”[1] How did we get here? History of the opioid epidemic The opioid epidemic in the United States began in the late…