Attorney General Jeff Sessions told law enforcement officials Friday that America is facing its “deadliest drug crisis” in history.
An early government estimate pegged the amount of drug overdoes deaths in 2016 at 64,000. That’s a sharp increase from the 52,000 Americans who lost their lives from drug overdoses in 2015. “That would be the highest drug death toll and the fastest increase in that death toll in American history. And every day this crisis grows,” Sessions said in Harrisburg.
President Trump and his administration has sought to address the drug overdose epidemic that’s buoyed by an increase of opioid usage. – READ MORE
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