00:00The overdose toll is continuing to increase and so it's actually been more than the road
00:08toll for nearly 10 years now.
00:11That's the sort of scale of the problem, but it's not talked about very much and it's possibly
00:15not talked about, I think, because of the stigma and shame that we've got around drug
00:19use issues generally.
00:21If you look at it from a population perspective, it's the second or third leading cause of
00:26death for men and women in their 20s, 30s and 40s.
00:30There's been a massive increase amongst people in their 50s, but it's really touching people
00:34from all walks of life and it's about the same now between regional and rural Australia
00:41and the cities.
00:43Most overdoses happen at home, so it's not something that's in the public square nearly
00:48enough, but we're losing people at an extraordinary rate.
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