There Could Be A Change In The Way We Track Opioid Deaths In The USA

The American Medical Association is changing the way it tracks the number of opioid deaths in the country.

New research is aiming to better track America’s deadly opioid crisis.

The American Medical Association now says opioid test information was unavailable for roughly half of all injury death investigations in the country in 2021.

The authors of the report say this raises concerns about potential under measuring of the number of opioid-related deaths in the US.