Opioid epidemic is increasing rates of some infectious diseases

Amadeo05 Apr, 2019Health

Since 1999, scarcely 400,000 people in a United States have fatally overdosed on opioid-containing drugs, with 47,600 deaths in 2017 alone. Many people with opioid use commotion (OUD), who primarily were prescribed verbal drugs to yield pain, now inject prescribed or bootleg opioids. High-risk injection practices such as needle-sharing are causing a swell in spreading diseases.