Overdose deaths among pregnant and postpartum women have tripled over the past three years, according to a new anaysis of official data.The rate of overdoses shot up in women aged 35-44 from 4.9 per 100,000 in 2018 to 15.8 in 2021, data from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) showed.Researchers at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) analyzed data on more than 17,000 deaths, including women who were pregnant or had been pregnant in the last year.
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