The opioid epidemic is now hitting the suburbs the hardest (via axios)
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Since 2013, deaths in cities and suburbs due to the opioid crisis have surpassed those in rural areas. During this time, synthetic opioids became responsible for more deaths than prescription drugs or heroin.We tend to talk a lot about how the opioid epidemic has ravaged small towns and rural areas. And it certainly has done that. But over the past few years, the crisis has hit harder in big cities, and hardest in those big cities' suburbs.
Suburbs now have the highest death rate, and have seen a bigger increase over time than big cities, small cities or rural areas. Deaths in cities and suburbs began to surpass rural areas around 2013 — the same timeframe in which synthetic opioids like fentanyl
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