"nearly two-thirds of which were linked to opioids like Percocet, OxyContin, heroin, and fentanyl. That’s more drug overdose deaths than any other period in US history — even more than past heroin epidemics, the crack epidemic, or the recent meth epidemic. And the preliminary data we have from 2016 suggests that the epidemic may have gotten worse since 2015."
Very interesting & revealing charts and data.
http://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/3/23/14987892/opioid-heroin-epidemic-charts |