CSPAN Senate Panel Looks At Stopping Flow Of Synthetic Drugs To U.S. May 25, 2017
That occurred last year, is occurring again this year and will continue to occur next year. Each year is getting worse than the previous. In my home, we will see approximately 800 drugrelated deaths in 2017, which is an increase from our most devastating year, last year, 2016, when we saw approximately 660 people die from drugrelated deaths, up from 370 the year before. Nearly 9 to of these deaths will be due to opioids of some kind. Prescribed pills from which the crisis originated and grew from, heroin, fentanyl, and now the newer analogs of fentanyl. Its nationwide Public Health emergency w...