Opioids have long been the go-to drugs to manage pain after surgery or injury.
But, today, those same drugs are taking a devastating toll on families and communities across the country as the number of opioid addicts and overdoses mount.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more people died from drug overdoses in 2014 than any year on record, and more than 60 percent of those deaths involved an opioid. Since 1999, the number of overdose deaths from opioids has nearly quadrupled, says the American Society of Addiction Medicine.
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