For the first time, Americans’ odds of dying from an accidental opioid overdose are higher than from a motor vehicle crash, a data analysis found. Injury Facts, an analysis from the nonprofit group National Safety Council, found the lifetime odds of dying by an accidental opioid overdose were 1 in 96, and the odds of dying by motor vehicle crash were 1 in 103. More than 49,000 people died because of opioid overdoses in 2017, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
— source usatoday.com | Jan. 14, 2019