One out of every five deaths among young adults ages 24 to 35 in the United States is related to opioids, with men representing nearly 70 percent of these deaths, according to a new study led by Canadian researchers at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. The study expands on research in Canadian populations.
The researchers calculated that the years of life lost prematurely to opioids in 2016 exceeded those lost each year to hypertension, HIV/AIDS and pneumonia in the U.S.
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