opioid deaths
Fentanyl crisis casualties
Deaths caused by overdose of opioids—a class of drugs including heroin, fentanyl, and prescription painkillers like oxycodone.
The term typically appears in discussions of the opioid epidemic that has killed hundreds of thousands in the United States since the late 1990s: Opioid deaths in rural communities have surged.
The phrase functions as a grim statistical category in public health reporting.
- drug overdoseHarmful excess consumption
- overdoseHarmful excess intake
- fentanylSynthetic pain-blocking compound
- heroinIllegal addictive opiate
- naloxoneOpioid overdose antidote
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- death datamortality rates, homicide rates, toxicology reports
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