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For nearly 20 years, opioid abuse has been spreading across the United States. Health experts say increasing numbers of Americans are growing physically dependent on painkilling medicines containing opioids, or narcotic drugs. The problem is so great that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service is calling 'opioid use disorder' an epidemic. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says that “from 2000 to 2014, nearly half a million Americans died from drug overdoses.” CDC officials reported that opioid overdose deaths “hit record levels in 2014, with an alarming 14 percent increase in one year.” The American Society of Addiction Medicine notes on their website that drug overdose is the leading cause of accidental death in the United States. The website says that in 2014, 47,055 people died nationwide because they took more than the medically recommended amount.
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Prescription painkillers containing opioids have led to thousands of overdose deaths and stays in hospitals. But until now, researchers have yet to study how this epidemic affects the youngest members of society. Julie Gaither is with the Yale School of Medicine in Connecticut. As an epidemiologist, she studies how diseases spread and how to control them. Gaither is concerned about the huge growth in opioid sales over the past 20 years. "The opioid epidemic has grown exponentially. It really began in the mid-1990s when physicians were encouraged to do a better job of treating chronic pain. In 2014, there were approximately 19,000 deaths that were attributed to opioid medications." The CDC says that 48 people nationwide in the U.S. die every day from opioid overdoses. And a new study found that over a 16-year period, more than 13,000 children and teenagers were hospitalized for opioid poisonings.
* lead to ~ = ~로 이어지다/ affect = (사람이나 신체 부위에) 발생하다[침범하다]; 병이 나게 하다; 영향을 미치다/ epidemiologist = 유행[전염, 역학(疫學)]병학자/ exponentially = 전형적으로, 기하급수적으로/ chronic pain = 만성통증(慢性痛症)/ (be) attributed to ~ = ~에 기인하다; ~의 덕분으로[결과로] 여겨지다
