Trump Declares the Opioid Crisis a ‘Public Health Emergency’

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In short:

• The leading cause of unnatural death in the US are Opioids now.
• Heroin alone kills more Americans than all gun homicides.
• In 2016 more Americans died from drugs than in Vietnam and Iraq wars combined.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/05/upshot/opioid-epidemic-drug-overdose-deaths-are-rising-faster-than-ever.html

"Drug overdoses have become the leading cause of death of Americans under 50, with two-thirds of those deaths from opioids. In 2016, 62,000 Americans died from overdoses and had killed more Americans in one year than both the wars in Vietnam and Iraq combined. By comparison, the figure was 16,000 in 2010, and 4,000 in 1999"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid_epidemic

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmDr_Vquc6A