The CDC says 100,000 Americans died from drug overdose from 2020 to 2021.
A study in The Lancet projects 1.2 million more could die of overdose by the end of this decade.
That rate of death would blow past the worst of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
And researchers discovered drug overdose rates were up in every age group.
But they’re rising fastest among some of America's youngest adults.
