Have Older Adults Become Increasingly Dependent On Opioids?

Despite commonly held beliefs, America's opioid epidemic is not only impacting the country's youth; it's also increasingly affecting older populations. There were 16,235 deaths involving prescription opioids in the country in 2013, an increase of 303% from 1999, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). There were 8,257 heroin-related deaths in [...]