Why are more Americans than ever dying from drug overdoses?

(The Guardian) The growing drugs crisis sweeping across the US is deadlier than gun violence car crashes or Aids none of which have killed as many Americans in a single year as overdoses did in 2017. Newly confirmed figures released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show the increasing scale of the crisis. The drugs epidemic is not confined to a small number of states nor to lower-income areas but instead has spread across the whole country. While there are concentrations around the midwest and regional differences in the type of substance overdose deaths are happening everywhere. Read More