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    Opinion: The statistics don’t capture the opioid epidemic’s impact on children

    What happens to a child when his or her parent overdoses on opioids or other drugs?
    by Carol Levine Jan 02, 2018 3 minutes
    When a parent becomes addicted to opioids or dies of an overdose, his or her children also bear the burden.

    The epidemic of drug overdose deaths is a national disaster. It claimed more than 64,000 lives in 2016, many of them by opioid overdoses. That’s far more than the number of deaths from HIV/AIDS in the peak year of 1995.

    My comparing the opioid and HIV/AIDS epidemics isn’t just a matter of statistics. Among those of us who were involved in responding to the HIV/AIDS crisis, there is a sense of dismay. We are once again facing a public health crisis for which there is inadequate research, limited funding, and much public stigma. And just as happened in the

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