| According to the CDC- Drug overdose deaths continue to increase in the United States From 1999 to 2017, more than 700,000 people have died from a drug overdose Around 68% of the more than 70,200 drug overdose deaths in 2017 involved an opioid In 2017, the number of overdose deaths involving opioids (including prescription opioids and illegal opioids like heroin and illicitly manufactured fentanyl) was 6 times higher than in 1999 On average, 130 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/epidemic/index.html Government spends billions waging war on marijuana while Purdue Pharma, Pill Mills, and The FDA kill the rest of us with Oxycontin |