I wonder how Trump will tackle this slight problem...
President Donald Trump's commission to tackle opioid drug abuse is urging him to declare a national emergency.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/ondcp/commission-interim-report.pdf
And it really is astonishing reading, namely an estimated 142 Americans die everyday from a drug overdose.
... drug overdoses now kill more people than gun homicides and car crashes combined. In fact, between 1999 and 2015, more than 560,000 people in this country died due to drug overdose..
As we have all seen, opioids are a prime contributor to our addiction and overdose crisis.
Americans consume more opioids than any other country in the world. In fact, in 2015, the amount of opioids prescribed in the U.S. was enough for every American to be medicated around the clock for three weeks.
That's right, around 150 folk dying everyday and in the main its through being prescribed medicines from the local doctor, amazing.