Experts: Opioid Crisis Hitting Georgia Especially Hard

From 2009 to 2014, Georgia’s rate of increase in the number of patient encounters related to opioids led the nation, said Michael Crooks of Alliant Quality, a health care consulting firm.

Toby Talbot / Associated Press file

The nation’s deepening opioid epidemic is hitting Georgia harder than most states, experts say.

That’s one of the messages that came out of a recent conference at the University of Georgia.

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