[infowarrior1]

CDC summary of the overdose deaths plaguing America:

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Drug overdose deaths in the United States continue to increase in 2015
91 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose (that includes prescription opioids and heroin).

Drug overdose deaths and opioid-involved deaths continue to increase in the United States. The majority of drug overdose deaths (more than six out of ten) involve an opioid.1 Since 1999, the number of overdose deaths involving opioids (including prescription opioids and heroin) quadrupled.2 From 2000 to 2015 more than half a million people died from drug overdoses. 91 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose.

We now know that overdoses from prescription opioids are a driving factor in the 15-year increase in opioid overdose deaths. The amount of prescription opioids sold to pharmacies, hospitals, and doctors’ offices nearly quadrupled from 1999 to 2010,3,4 yet there had not been an overall change in the amount of pain that Americans reported.5,6 Deaths from prescription opioids—drugs like oxycodone, hydrocodone, and methadone—have more than quadrupled since 1999.7

https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/epidemic/index.html

Plenty more infographics on the website itself.

Nearly every day I hear reports of Americans dying of opioids(and other drugs) which seem to be getting worse and worse and in the last few years its like a 9/11 every 3 weeks. Whats going on? What's causing this and what's the consequences?