The following op-ed by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara was published in today's edition of the New York Daily News.
The images are heartbreaking. A 2-year-old girl in pink pajamas tugs on
her mother’s sleeve as she lies unresponsive in a supermarket aisle.
Two parents come home after work and find their 22-year-old daughter on
the floor face down, cold and blue. A couple overdoses in a car, engine
still running, with their young son strapped helplessly to his car seat
in the back.
These searing images drive home just how bad the opioid abuse epidemic has gotten.
And the statistics bear it out. Close to 80 Americans die from opioid
overdoses every day: almost 550 a week, 2,400 a month, 30,000 a year.
Thirty thousand lives cut short; 30,000 families devastated; 30,000
communities scarred, every year.
More Americans now die from overdoses than from car accidents or guns,
not to mention the hundreds of thousands of overdose-related emergency
room visits each year.
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Source: Provided by The Empire Report
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