Over 96,700 people die from drug overdoses in a year.Opioids are a factor in 7 out of every 10 overdose deaths.
Drug overdoses have killed almost a million people since 1999.
Um... what do drug overdoses have to do with the FDA?
Those drug abusers aren’t getting prescriptions for the drugs they overdose on. They’re getting those drugs from cartels who bring the drugs in on major corridors like the I-95 freeway or US 40 on the East Coast. No medical person advised them to take a drug in a manner it wasn’t prescribed for.
People who take opiates according to prescription aren’t going to overdose on them.