“Opioids could kill nearly 500,000 Americans in the next decade,” screamed the headline in a June 27, 2017 StatNews story.
The New York Times said recently, “The first government account of nationwide drug deaths shows roughly 64,000 people died from drug overdoses in 2016. The death count is the latest consequence of an escalating public health crisis: opioid addition, now made more deadly by an influx of illicitly manufactured fentanyl and similar drugs.”
