(24/7 Newssource) -- A new Yale University study shows that children and teens are dying from opioid drugs at an alarming rate.
The Yale study indicates that there have been almost nine thousand child and teen opioid deaths in the last two decades.
The study is based on mortality data from between 1999 and 2016.
The study also indicates that the overall drug overdose deaths during the period are over 70 thousand.
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