Benefits @ Work: The Opioid Epidemic

Benefits @ Work: The Opioid Epidemic

Author: Lipscomb and Pitts Insurance, Sarah Gillespie | Producer: Andrew Bartolotta July 31, 2020 Duration: 16:06
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About 115 Americans die each day from overdosing on drugs called opioids. The number of drug overdose deaths decreased by 4% from 2017 to 2018, but the number of drug overdose deaths was still four times higher in 2018 than in 1999.1  Nearly 70% of the 67,367 deaths in 2018 involved an opioid.  Locally on May 11, Shelby county health department reported a spike in drug overdose activity across the county during a 32-day period. Within 30 days (from April 7 to May 7) there were 391 total suspected overdoses reported, 58 of those being fatal. SCHD says that’s the highest count since data collection began in Jan. 2019. Within 14 days (from April 23 to May 7) there were 209 suspected overdoses reported with 35 of those being fatal. Within 7 days (from April 30 to May 7) there were 131 suspected overdoses reported with 20 reports being fatal. Within 24 hours (on May 5) there were 20 overdoses reported and four of those reports ended in death.

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