(Published December 21, 2017)
Every day, 91 Americans die from opioid overdose. In Iowa, opioids are impacting women age 45-64 at an ever increasing rate. Why? In part, because they don't even know it. Women in this age group are more likely to have physical conditions for which opioids are prescribed, yet they don’t know about the severe risks of opioid misuse.
Between 1999 and 2015, the national rate of deaths from prescription opioid overdoses increased 471 percent among women, compared to an increase of 218 percent among men; heroin deaths among women increased at more than twice the rate of men1.
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1Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Analysis of the National Vital Statistics System Multiple Cause of Death data, Wide-ranging OnLine Data for Epidemiologic Research (WONDER). 2017.