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METHADONE DEPENDENCE
Why Don’t We Talk About the Deaths from Methadone?
According to the CDC’s 2014 report on opioid overdose , methadone overdose accounted for a whopping 22.9% of opioid-related deaths in 2014. More disturbing than this is the fact that methadone deaths dropped from 2007 when there were 5,518 deaths. In 2014, 3,400 people died of methadone overdose.