Costs of prescription opioid overdose, abuse and addiction in the U.S. 2013
This graph shows the aggregate costs of prescription opioid abuse, dependence and fatal overdose in the United States in 2013, in million U.S. dollars. Total costs from opioid abuse, dependence and fatal overdose were estimated to be over 78 billion dollars for that year, with health insurance costs accounting for the largest portion of such costs.
