Accidental drug overdoses may have cost America's young generations lost over a million years worth of life during a five year period from 2015 to 2019, a new study finds.
Researchers from State University, in Columbus, gathered data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention () to find the number of years of life lost from children and teens aged ten to 19 who died of an accidental drug overdose.
By comparing age of death to the average life expectancy, they found the age group suffered 200,000 lost years of life. When the study age was extended to 24 years old, they found a total of 1.2 million years of life lost.
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