Opioid epidemic in the United States
Opioid epidemic in the United States — ongoing and extensive overuse of opioid medications, both from medical prescriptions and from illegal sources, which began in the United States in the late 1990s, when opioids were increasingly prescribed for pain management.
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- es crisis sanitaria y parte de epidemia de opioides
- nl sterfte door overdoses opioïden in de Verenigde Staten
- ru эпидемия злоупотребления опиоидами в США, начавшаяся в конце 1990-х годов machine-translated
- ar أزمة صحية في الولايات المتحدة ناجمة عن الإفراط في استخدام المواد الأفيونية machine-translated
- de Nutzung von Opioid-Schmerzmitteln in den USA
- fr crise sanitaire au Canada et aux États-Unis
- pt Uso excessivo e contínuo de opioides, tanto de prescrições médicas quanto de fontes ilegais, que começou nos Estados Unidos no final da década de 1990, quando os opioides eram cada vez mais prescritos para o controle da dor.
- it uso eccessivo e prolungato di oppioidi negli Stati Uniti, iniziato negli anni novanta machine-translated
