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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Mar 16.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Chest Med. 2022 Jun;43(2):e1–e14. doi: 10.1016/j.ccm.2022.05.001

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1.

The 3 epidemiologic “waves” of overdose deaths involving opioids: prescribed opioids, heroin, and synthetic opioids. (Data from CDC/NCHS, National Vital Statistics System, Mortality. CDC WONDER, Atlanta, GA: US Department of Health and Human Services, CDC; 2020. https://wonder.cdc.gov/.)