Talia Miles

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Since 1999, annual deaths attributed to opioid overdose in the United States have increased from about 10,000 to about 50,000 in 2019.1 During the COVID-19 pandemic > 74,000 opioid overdose deaths occurred in the US from April 2020 to April 2021.2,3 Opioid-related overdoses now account for about 75% of all drug-related overdose deaths.1 In 2017, the cost of opioid overdose deaths and opioid use disorder (OUD) reached $1.02 trillion in the United States and $26 million in Indiana.4 The total...