WHY IT MATTERS: Opioid epidemic

[Gerald]

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — THE ISSUE: More Americans are dying from opioids than at any time in recent history, with overdose deaths hitting a peak of 28,000 in 2014. That amounts to 78 Americans dying from an opioid overdose every day, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC uses opioid as an umbrella term for synthetic painkillers and for drugs derived naturally from opium (known more specifically as opiates), such a heroin.
It's not just the use of illicit opiates like heroin that is on the rise — overdose deaths from prescription painkillers have quadrupled since 1999, tracking a similar increase in the amount of these drugs being prescribed by doctors

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The use need to be tough and controlled, in Asia and Africa, among other places, they(produced in factories) made these drugs illegally and sell through online pharmacies and also to contact people and line up to the consumer.

Updated 1:12 pm, Wednesday, August 17, 2016