Current Health- Related Event or Issue. 1. Identify a current health related event or issue: Drug overdose contribute to record number of organs donors 2. Describe in detail this event or issue: There was also a record number of total donors, both living and deceased: 16,462, up 3% from the year before.There were more than 10,000 deceased organ donors last year, a 3% increase over the previous year and a 27% jump since 2007. More than 1,300 of those donors, or 13%, died from drug overdoses . 3. Who is involved in this event or issue? In the past five years, the number of deceased organ donors increased 24%, while the number of donors who died of drug overdose jumped 144%. In 2013, just 560 donors had died from drug overdose or intoxication; last year, there were 1,367. 4.what is being done about it The most recent numbers from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicate that more than 63,000 people died from dr...
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