Id |
Subject |
Object |
Predicate |
Lexical cue |
T15 |
0-73 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Opioid abuse in the United States (U.S.) has reached catastrophic levels. |
T16 |
74-229 |
Sentence |
denotes |
According to the latest World Drug Report, 53.4 million people worldwide used opioids in 2017, which is 56% higher than in the previous year (UNODC 2019a). |
T17 |
230-388 |
Sentence |
denotes |
North America remains the region with the highest non-medical use of opioids with a staggering 4% of the population aged 15–64 using opioids (UNODC 2019a, c). |
T18 |
389-593 |
Sentence |
denotes |
In 2017, the burden of opioid use in the U.S. had accounted for 42 million healthy years of life lost due to premature death and disability (Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation 2017; UNODC 2019a). |
T19 |
594-751 |
Sentence |
denotes |
During 2017, there were 70,237 overdose related deaths, out of which 47,600 (67.8%) were caused by opioids, which was a 12% increase from 2016 (Scholl et al. |
T20 |
752-771 |
Sentence |
denotes |
2018; UNODC 2019c). |
T21 |
772-910 |
Sentence |
denotes |
The Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that on average 130 Americans die from an opioid overdose each day (CDC 2017). |
T22 |
911-973 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Due to the constant rise in deaths involving opioids, the U.S. |
T23 |
974-1060 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Government declared the opioid crisis/epidemic a public health emergency in 2017 (U.S. |
T24 |
1061-1107 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Department of Health and Human Services 2017). |
T25 |
1108-1313 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Injection drug use increases the likelihood of contracting human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and drug abuse and HIV have long been described as interrelated epidemics (Swan 1997; Leshner 1998; Nath et al. |
T26 |
1314-1326 |
Sentence |
denotes |
1999, 2002). |
T27 |
1327-1466 |
Sentence |
denotes |
Despite this understanding, opioid use disorder (OUD) and HIV remain a huge public health concern (Strathdee and Beyrer 2015; Peters et al. |
T28 |
1467-1473 |
Sentence |
denotes |
2016). |
T29 |
1474-1651 |
Sentence |
denotes |
In fact, the opioid crisis is seen as a major roadblock in several aspects of public health, including thwarting the goal of eliminating HIV within the next decade (Fauci et al. |
T30 |
1652-1681 |
Sentence |
denotes |
2019; Lerner and Fauci 2019). |