About One in Three Americans Have Lost Someone to a Drug Overdose, New Study Finds

CBS News

About one in three Americans know someone who has died of a drug overdose, according to a new survey. 

More than 2,300 adults responded to the survey, which was conducted by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and published on Friday. 

Thirty-two percent of responders said someone they knew died of a fatal drug overdose. For 18.9% of respondents, the person they knew who died “was a family member or close friend.” 

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