What Kills More Americans than Guns and Cars?
Each year, more than 40,000 Americans die from drug overdoses. That's on par with the annual death toll from HIV/AIDS at the peak of the US epidemic, in the late '80s and early '90s, and far more than are killed each year from car accidents or gun violence. More than half of those overdose deaths involved opioids, a class of drugs including heroin, Vicodin, OxyContin, and fentanyl.
So dire is the epidemic of opioid addiction that it inspired a rare moment of political bipartisanship earlier this year, when Congress passed the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act to increase accessibility to addiction medications and the overdose reversal drug naloxone. Democrats tried to include $920 million in treatment funding, but Republicans blocked the move, saying they would address the issue during the appropriations process this fall.
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The sad fact is the government doing something is causing millions to needlessly suffer in pain because the doctors no longer are allowed to prescribe the pain medication they need. The pain eventually overcomes the will to live and they kill themselves to escape the pain.
Once again we see how government strips us of our freedom to access pain medication, creates a black market that disproportionately hurts the poor and drives us farther into debt simultaneously.
Since Bush and his big Pharma cronies pushed Medicare part C on America, there has been a concerted effort by the Medical/Prescription Drug/ Insurance Companies, to get every single person in America hooked on, in need of, or using some kind of health aide.