(Undated) — More than four in ten Americans know someone who has died of a drug overdose. That’s according to a recent study in the “American Journal of Public Health.”
The nonprofit think tank RAND Corporation says while the overdose crisis has wide-ranging negative impacts on people who use drugs, little research has looked into the experiences of those left behind by fatal drug overdoses. The study projects that over 40-million adults have had their lives disrupted by overdose loss.
Exposure to an overdose death is more common among women than men, those who live in urban areas compared to those in rural ones and U.S.-born respondents than immigrants.
