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Current interventions to limit prescription opioid misuse are not enough to address the larger, looming problem of illicit opioids in the United States according to a study published in JAMA Network Open by a multi-institute research team. The researchers developed a dynamic systems model to project opioid overdose death trends from 2016 to 2025 and found that, even under the strictest scenarios, overdose deaths will continue to rise.