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The Centers for Disease Control is offering up a pretty bleak peek at the new normal in the good ol' USA: an appalling 72,000 Drug Overdose Deaths in 2017 alone.
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We'll do the ugly math for you. That's creeping awfully close to 200 drug-deaths every day.
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Drug overdoses are stone cold killers, stealing the last breaths of a jaw-dropping 6,000 citizens each month - a record number of dead people that equals just about a 10% rise from the year before.
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According to a study entitled New Estimates in The Drug Epidemic, the annual drug OD death toll is higher than the largest yearly totals from gun deaths, car crashes or HIV.
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Analysts say the findings are primarily the result of two major reasons: More Americans than ever are seduced into using opioids, and the drugs themselves have become far more powerful and far more addictive.Â
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Here's another look:
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