Overdose Deaths Now Top 100,000 a Year. Why Do So Few People Addicted to Opioids Get Treatment that Could Save Them?
The opioid crisis that helped kill a record 108,000 Americans last year — and more than one million since 1999 — is by now a well-known tragedy. Less understood is that many if not most of these deaths, now largely from fentanyl, are preventable.