Millennials Hit Hard by Opioids
The death rate continues to rise sharply among young adults.
By Ruben Castaneda, Staff Writer |March 12, 2018, at 1:08 p.m.
In the latest sign that the nation's opioid epidemic is accelerating, the rate of drug overdoses and the death rate for young adults between the ages of 25 and 34 rose sharply in recent years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2016, nearly 35 out of every 100,000 people between the ages of 25 and 34 died of a drug overdose, according to the CDC. That's a nearly 50 percent increase from the rate of overdose fatalities in that age group in 2014, when about 23 out of every 100,000 deaths was from a drug overdose. These figures include all drug overdose deaths, not just those from opioids.
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