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Saturday, November 16, 2024

Opioids: Benefits Come with Risks

Opioids have been in the news for several years. They are very useful for treating severe, short-term pain. But they can also be dangerous. More than 100,000 people in the United States died of drug overdoses between November 2020 and November 2021, according to the CDC. Sixty-six percent of those deaths involved synthetic opioids.

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