More than 50,000 Americans died from drug overdoses last year, the highest figure ever.
The tally has been pushed to new heights by soaring abuse of heroin and prescription painkillers, especially fentanyl.
Heroin deaths rose 23 per cent in a year, to 12,989, slightly higher than the number of gun homicides, according to government data released yesterday.
The total number of gun deaths - which included suicides and accidents - rose seven per cent to 36,252.
It comes only days after another report which showed fentanyl, a synthetic opiate which is 40 times stronger than heroin, has become the largest drug threat to the United States, and causes 44 deaths every day.
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Of course, but they make money off of those kinds of drugs, and, those kinds of drugs are not what is stopping the politicians from being dictators... So be obtuse morons all you want, but guns are the only reason we are still free today, what ever little freedom we still have...
ReplyDeleteVolunteers eliminating themselves from life
ReplyDeleteI suppose Democrats aren't too concerned about heroin (vs. all the gun control talk from them), as that won't leave the general populous unarmed. Remember, second amendment is in case of enemies foreign & domestic.
ReplyDeleteThis has to be fake news because heroin is illegal
ReplyDeleteYes 11:05 is correct .... foreign and "DOMESTIC"
ReplyDeleteSo we do something about heroin but NOTHING on guns .
ReplyDeleteGun don't kill, people kill
DeleteIt's just that simple
And Heroin saves lives
ReplyDeleteAnd guns save lives to, thank you very much
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