Analytics: A must-have tool for leading the fight on prescription and illicit drug addiction

State and local law enforcement and health agencies are on the front lines of this epidemic and rely on data to make life-saving decisions.

More than 42,000 Americans died from opioid overdoses in 2016, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In June 2018, the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) published a report revealing more than 71,000 Medicare beneficiaries were at serious risk of opioid misuse or overdose and over 300 prescribers exhibited questionable opioid prescribing to those thousands of beneficiaries. These numbers are alarming.

According to the HHS, drug overdose deaths and opioid-involved deaths continue to increase in the US. Deaths from drug overdose are up across the entire demographic spectrum. The epidemic has been declared a national emergency.