FTA: >In the first study to link organ donation to drug abuse, researchers found that organs donated by overdose victims jumped from 59 in the year 2000 to 1,0

FTA: >In the first study to link organ donation to drug abuse, researchers found that organs donated by overdose victims jumped from 59 in the year 2000 to 1,029 by 2016. >This is almost as many as the 1,356 organs donated as a result of deaths from car crashes, the biggest source of organ donations. Comparing organ donation from deaths, it's not very small at all.