Drug Dealers Get Off Scot-Free

More Americans now use prescription opioids than smoking cigarettes, according to a report by the U.S. Surgeon General. This happens to kill more Americans than car crashes do. Drug overdose deaths have risen by 33% over the past 5 years. Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that they know of no other medication routinely used for a nonfatal condition that kills patients so frequently.

Illegal drugs and/or misused prescription drugs in 2015 mounted to the use of 27 million Americans. Addiction to these misused drugs, addiction to opioids …read more