The U.S. Consumes Nearly All Opioids In The World
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In the last two decades, an opioid epidemic has swept throughout the United States, killing nearly 30,000 people each year from overdose. That’s more than twice the number of deaths from HIV/AIDS, and almost the same number of car accident fatalities. This heroin and prescription opioid crisis is the worst the US has ever seen, even leading President Barack Obama to include $1 billion dollars in the 2017 budget devoted to fighting the epidemic. So, how did the US’s opioid drug problem get so bad? Well, according to the 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, an estimated 2.1 million people in the US have substance abuse problems with prescription opiates, specifically pain relievers such as hydrocodone, also called Vicodin, and oxycodone, or Percocet....
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In the last two decades, an opioid epidemic has swept throughout the United States, killing nearly 30,000 people each year from overdose. That’s more than twice the number of deaths from HIV/AIDS, and almost the same number of car accident fatalities. This heroin and prescription opioid crisis is the worst the US has ever seen, even leading President Barack Obama to include $1 billion dollars in the 2017 budget devoted to fighting the epidemic. So, how did the US’s opioid drug problem get so bad? Well, according to the 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, an estimated 2.1 million people in the US have substance abuse problems with prescription opiates, specifically pain relievers such as hydrocodone, also called Vicodin, and oxycodone, or Percocet....
