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United States opioid epidemic economic burden in 2016, by type
It was estimated that overdose deaths from the opioid epidemic resulted in around 43.2 billion U.S. dollars in lost productivity in 2016. The total estimated economic burden of the opioid epidemic that year was around 95.3 billion dollars.