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Below are figures from the 2016 National Survey on Drug Use and Health:
116 people die every day from opioid-related drug overdoses
11.5 million people misuse prescription opioids
42,249 die from overdosing on opioids
2.1 million misuse prescription opioids for the first time
948,000 people use heroin
$504 billion in economic costs
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