The death toll of the US opioid crisis has been seriously lowballed, suggests a new study published Wednesday in Public Health Reports. It found that many states have failed to identify fatal drug overdoses specifically caused by opioid use over the past two decades. Since 1999, there might have been as many as 70,000…
Source: Gizmodo – 70,000 Opioid Deaths in the US May Have Gone Uncounted Since 1999