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Soaring overdose death rate fuels rise in organ transplantation

Organs from people who died of drug overdose are just as healthy as those donated by those who died of other causes.
Firefighters transport an overdose victim to a hospital

People who die after overdosing on drugs are driving a rise in the number of organs available for transplant in the United States. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty

The number of organ transplants in the United States has grown, in large part because of a rise in deaths from drug overdoses.

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Nature 557, 470 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-05194-x

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