Opioid overdoses put $1.94 billion strain on hospitals

Report Quantifies Staggering Impact of Overdose on Hospital Care

https://www.behavioral.net/article/prescription-drug-abuse/report-quantifies-staggering-impact-overdose-hospital-care

The analysis found that when combining the costs of emergency care and both inpatient hospitalization and intensive care unit (ICU) services following emergency care, opioid overdose generated $1.94 billion in annual hospital costs across the 647 studied facilities.