Report Demonstrates Need for More Border Barriers
Huge toll from opioid epidemic
By Andrew R. Arthur on October 29, 2018
Since the beginning of his presidential campaign, Donald Trump has called for the erection of a wall along the Southwest border. A recent report underscores the need for such additional barriers along that border.
That report, from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), was broken down in an article that appeared in Real Clear Life captioned "$115 Billion Lost and More Than 48,000 Dead: Staggering Numbers About the Opioid Crisis in 2017". As the title suggests, the opioid crisis that is currently affecting tens of thousands in the United States has brought with it a significant death toll that has also carried a shocking cost to the American economy.
As that article states:
https://cis.org/Arthur/Report-Demonstrates-Need-More-Border-Barriers
