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Facts:

Drug overdose is the leading cause of accidental death in the US, with 52,404 lethal drug overdoses in 2015. Opioid addiction is driving this epidemic, with 20,101 overdose deaths related to prescription pain relievers, and 12,990 overdose deaths related to heroin in 2015.5

• From 1999 to 2008, overdose death rates, sales and substance use disorder treatment admissions related to prescription pain relievers increased in parallel. The overdose death rate in 2008 was nearly four times the 1999 rate; sales of prescription pain relievers in

In 2012, 259 million prescriptions were written for opioids, which is more than enough to

give every American adult their own bottle of pills.7

• Four in five new heroin users started out misusing prescription painkillers.8

• 94% of respondents in a 2014 survey of people in treatment for opioid addiction said they

chose to use heroin because prescription opioids were “far more expensive and harder to obtain.