Opioid Epidemic Declared Public Health Emergency: Empty Words or New Impetus?
With the number of opioid-induced overdose deaths rising each year, it is fair to say that “America has an insatiable appetite for prescription opioids." The number of heroin related overdose deaths in the United States increased significantly between 2007 and 2013, rising 244 percent in just 6 years. Many law enforcement agencies now report that the substance now posing the greatest threat to American communities is heroin, closely followed by methamphetamine, and then contr