CDC Neglect Is Killing Americans

CDC Neglect Is Killing Americans
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This year drug overdose deaths may exceed 70,000 Americans. We do not really know, however. We have no estimate of the number of non-fatal overdoses and no estimate of how fast addiction is spreading.

Over 64,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2016 and that number has been growing at 20 percent a year. So it is likely that more than 170 Americans are dying each day from illegal drug use. Why, then, is the response to these deaths so much less urgent than the reaction to a health crisis such as the E. Coli outbreak in lettuce that has, so far, killed one person?



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