June 28, 2017 | Health News
By Christopher J.L. Murray
We’re living with a virus-like disease sweeping our nation. Nearly every community is affected. The rates of death rise year after year. Between 1990 and 2015, the percentages of death more than quadrupled. We lost more people than the population of Pittsburgh.
It’s the second-leading killer of men in their thirties, making the disease an even bigger threat to their health than being murdered with firearms.
This killer sweeping the nation: opioid use.
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Christopher Murray is the Director of the UW Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and a Professor of Global Health.