Sixty-three percent of Americans have used an opioid before, and more than a third have taken one in the past three years, according to two new surveys of consumers and health care providers by WebMD and Medscape.
The figure helps explain the skyrocketing rates of prescription drug abuse and heroin use that medical experts are calling a public health crisis.
Indeed, 74 percent of the 1,513 health care professionals polled said they were “very concerned” about the increased misuse and abuse of opioids.
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