In the United States, the probability of dying from opioids has for the first time surpassed the likelihood of being killed in a car crash, according to a new report by the National Safety Council.
Published on Monday and based on the National Center for Health Statistics' 2017 data, the report found that opioids overdose was the fifth most probable cause of preventable death, with a one-in-96 odds. The odds of dying in a vehicular crash were one-in-103.
More probable causes than opioids overdoses were heart disease, cancer, onic lower respiratory disease and suicide.
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