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Though national data shows that opioid use disorder (OUD) and deaths from overdose have been trending downward since 2023, new data suggests the opioid epidemic is far from over.
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epidemic → show → 2023
Between 2022 to 2025, nearly 33% more people with an addiction to opioid drugs — which include morphine, heroin, pain relievers like oxycodone, and fentanyl — have received a diagnosis of OUD from a doctor.
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which → include → doctor
And the age groups hit the hardest are probably not the ones you think.
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you → hit → ?
In fact, young adults under 30 made up the smallest share of patients.
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adults → make → patients
What researchers found
While not every person with OUD has health insurance, most people with an opioid addiction do have health coverage, which makes treatment much easier.
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treatment → find → coverage
In 2022, 449 patients per every 100,000 patients got diagnosed with OUD.
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patients → diagnose → OUD
In 2025, there were 596 patients for every 100,000 — a nearly 33% increase, the FAIR Health report found.
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report → be → 100,000
Getting that diagnosis is an important step for treatment, including helping people get medication like suboxone, methadone and naltrexone that reduce cravings and withdrawal.
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that → get → cravings
Most (56.1%) patients diagnosed with OUD were men.
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patients → diagnose → OUD
Patients over 65 accounted for 10.7% of OUD diagnoses, and those aged 23 to 30 accounted for 7.2%.
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those → account → %
Opioid deaths had been rising, first from prescription drugs, then from heroin, and in recent years, fentanyl.
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deaths → rise → years
In 2023, 217 people died every day from opioid overdose.
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people → die → overdose
But the same year, things started changing — for the first time since 2018, annual opioid deaths started decreasing.
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deaths → start → 2018
They’ve been steadily declining since.
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They → decline → ?
Part of the reason was a major shift in prescription recommendations from the CDC in 2022: they recommended doctors use non-opioid painkillers first, and if opioids were required, they should use the lowest effective dose over the shortest expected amount of time.
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they → recommend → time
Methodone cuts risk of death in half for those struggling with opioid addiction — but previously required patients to come in six times a week to get it.
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Methodone → cut → it
Changing policy allowed patients to take home a month’s supply, which helped people avoid overdosing.
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people → change → supply
Plus, there are programs that track controlled substance prescriptions so patients can’t “doctor shop” — getting scripts from multiple doctors.
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patients → be → doctors
While FAIR Health doesn’t provide possible reasons for why OUD diagnoses are rising, their findings may not be at odds at all with CDC data showing that addiction is down.
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addiction → provide → odds
More people with existing conditions could be getting the help they need.
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they → exist → help
This could be because more offices are offering opioid use disorder treatment, more medications like methodone are available, or insurance is covering more of the required doctor’s visits, screenings, and medication.
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insurance → offer → visits
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