Drug Deaths in America Are Rising Faster Than Ever

[DreamSmoker]

Not a Peep from the GOP on the Biggest Killer in America...
It's not by Terror, Guns, Or Bombs...
It's so bad even I know of two who have died from this...
These Folks were not Drug Abusers either... They were prescribed these Drugs legally..



The death count is the latest consequence of an escalating public health crisis: opioid addiction, now made more deadly by an influx of illicitly manufactured fentanyl and similar drugs. Drug overdoses are now the leading cause of death among Americans under 50.

Although the data is preliminary, the Times’s best estimate is that deaths rose 19 percent over the 52,404 recorded in 2015. And all evidence suggests the problem has continued to worsen in 2017.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/05/upshot/opioid-epidemic-drug-overdose-deaths-are-rising-faster-than-ever.html

[underpants]

1. I think Jared's going to fix that

Right after he brings peace to the Middle East

[Warpy]

2. Some manufacturer is leaking Fentanyl like a sieve

and the DEA should be chasing that instead of harassing doctors and people in chronic pain.

That would mean taking on Big Pill and the mob simultaneously and I suppose they're scared to.

[nycbos]

3. It is only a "crisis" because white people are dying.

If was mostly POC people wouldn't care.

[dalton99a]

5. +1

[Girard442]

6. It's clearly a flaw in white culture.

Really, why don't their leaders address the issues of personal responsibility and avoiding the lure of instant gratification.

[nycbos]

7. 84% of white people are killed by other white people

Clearly someone has to have a conversation about white on white violence.

[Turbineguy]

4. To republicans,

addition is a choice people make every time they use drugs.