National Opioid Awareness Day

100,000 Americans die from opioid overdose each year. Understanding the crisis is the first step.

National Opioid Awareness Day on September 21 raises awareness about the opioid epidemic, which has claimed approximately 500,000 American lives since 1999 and continues to kill approximately 100,000 people per year. The epidemic has evolved through several waves: prescription opioid overprescribing