US opioid deaths jump fourfold in 20 years; epidemic shifts to Eastern states

(Stanford Medicine) Opioid-related deaths nationwide jumped fourfold in the last two decades, and the epidemic has made major inroads in the Eastern states, according to a new study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine, Harvard University and the University of Toronto.

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