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The fact that pushing those overdose numbers, primarily due to a mixing of drugs. they are mixing opioids with other drugs. more people have died from other common medications than pure prescribed opioids. this isn't a prescription problem it is a street problem. trump has some how pushed on this, would you favor your cheap goods, your cheaper iphones and have 16 to 100,000 people die, or would you rather have higher quality goods and stop the influx of drugs in our country? human beings tend to ignore tragedy for goods that are near them. it forces them to pay the piper, so to speak. emily, i...

You're seeing more in rural office. cdc data showing while that used to be the case, now it's the metro areas and the suburbs of those areas that are seeing the more overdoses overall. what is interesting is, axios points out, there was an inflection point and 2013. that was around the type that fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, started killing more people than heroin. so opioid usage has risen in urban areas and also the suburbs as well increasingly becoming a problem. >> we just got word, jackie, overall overdoses are down. >> yeah. >> it's an interesting report and gives us a glimmer of hope. t...

Should drug dealers be charged with murder if their customer dies of an overdose? north carolina's death by distribution law would do just that. this comes after nine people in an ohio county died from opioid overdoses in just two days. is north carolina's law a fair way to fight the opioid crisis? here to weigh in his professor of law, thank you for joining us, appreciate it. we hear those numbers and at this point i don't think people are surprised because the numbers continue to grow, 9 people in two days, nationally the overdose numbers as well, 130 people in the us and i every single day ...