It is projected that if the opioid overdose crisis stabilizes by the year 2020 there will be around 700,400 overdose deaths from prescription and illicit opioids from 2016 to 2025. If the crisis does not stabilize until the year 2025 it is predicted that overdose deaths due to illicit opioids will reach a total of over 1 million from 2016 to 2025.
Projected number of overdose deaths from prescription and illicit opioids in the United States from 2016 to 2025 for select scenarios as of 2019*
All figures are projections.
* "The base-case scenario assumed that the opioid overdose crisis will stabilize by 2020
(ie, the incidence of illicit opioids as the initiating opioid and the overdose mortality rate
attributable to illicit opioids would increase at the rate observed in preceding years,
but would stabilize by 2020). The pessimistic scenario assumed that the opioid
overdose crisis would not stabilize until 2025."
** "Results of number of OD deaths from prescription opioids in the pessimistic scenario
are the same as those in the base-case scenario, because the changes of assumptions in
incidences and overdose mortality from illicit opioids would not affect the outcomes
of the population using prescription opioids with and without opioid use disorder."
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