Following the 2021 record-setting report of opioid overdose deaths in the United States, experts are predicting higher rates of overdose deaths, based on the results of a report published in JAMA Network Open.
“I’m sounding the alarm because, for the first time, there is a convergence and escalation of acceleration rates for every type of rural and urban county,” Lori Ann Post, PhD, director of the Buehler Center for Health Policy and Economics at Northwestern University and study author, said in a press release accompanying the study.
“Not only is the death rate from an