Nearly 80K Americans 55+ Overdose Between 1999-2019
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Americans 55 and older have died from opioid overdose from 500 deaths in 1999
Over the 20 years to 2019, the number of Americans 55 and older who died from an opioid overdose surged 1,886% from a little over 500 deaths in 1999 to more than ten thousand deaths two decades later.
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Nearly 80K Americans 55+ Overdose Between 1999-2019
Clip: 1/13/2022 | 6m 37sVideo has Closed Captions
Over the 20 years to 2019, the number of Americans 55 and older who died from an opioid overdose surged 1,886% from a little over 500 deaths in 1999 to more than ten thousand deaths two decades later.
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