Fact
There were 1.68 million potential years of life lost to opioids in the United States in 2016.
Source 1:
Gomes T, Tadrous M, Mamdani MM, Paterson JM, Juurlink DN. The Burden of Opioid-Related Mortality in the United States. JAMA Netw Open. 2018;1(2):e180217. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2018.0217
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2682878