Opioid Use Disorders and Overdose Deaths Worldwide

"Globally, an estimated 64 million people were suffering from drug use disorders in 2022. Most drug use disorders are related to the harmful patterns of use of cannabis and opioids, which are also the two drug types for which most people seek drug treatment worldwide. However, opioid use can have more serious health consequences than cannabis. Therefore, opioid use disorders account globally for the largest burden of disease attributed to drug use disorders; they account for the majority of healthy years of life lost due to premature death and disability (71 per cent, 2019) and the highest share of global overdose deaths (69 per cent, 2019)."