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At the current rate of drug overdose deaths in the United States, what is the average lifetime chance of dying from a drug overdose?

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At the current rate of drug overdose deaths in the United States, one in every 59 people will die of a drug overdose. The drug overdose death rate in the U.S. has risen by 3.5 times since 2000, and more than 70,000 people per year are now being killed by drug overdoses.

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