The Briefing Room
General Category => Health/Education => Topic started by: To-Whose-Benefit? on January 21, 2018, 04:36:39 am
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zerohedge
Tyler Durden
Sat, 01/20/2018 - 18:40
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https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-20/inside-americas-deadly-opioid-crisis (https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-20/inside-americas-deadly-opioid-crisis)
Opioids kill more people than they cure. Every day in the United States, some 140 people die from taking opioids - addictive opiate-based drugs. They’ve become the leading cause of death among the under-50s, ahead of road accidents and firearms. France24's US correspondents, Valérie Defert, Baptiste Fenwick, Hayde Fitzpatrick and Romain Jany, take a look at the deadly opioid crisis.
Opioids are neither viruses nor bacteria, but painkillers. In the United States, they are prescribed in abundance and are perfectly legal for a small injury or a tooth extraction. Opioids are analgesics, highly powerful painkillers, derived from opium. But many patients become addicted to the drug in just a few days and today this medication, which can cause fatal overdoses, actually kills more people than it cures.
The death of celebrities such as Prince and Michael Jackson put the painkiller addiction epidemic in the spotlight, a scourge that permeates every US region and all social classes.
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