How The Opioid Epidemic Took Center Stage At The DNC
The United States is currently fighting a war against opioid addiction. In 2014, more people died of a drug overdose than ever before. Sixty percent of those deaths involved opioids. From 1999 to 2014, the number of deaths due to opioid overdose increased by 400%, and on an average day in the U.S., 3,900 people begin to abuse prescription opioids and 580 people start using heroin.
This is from my latest piece for The Recovery Village’s blog, about what Democrats had to say about the opioid epidemic.
If you don’t know my politics now, know #ImWithHer, and have been from the start — but seriously, there was one mention of the epidemic at the RNC:
On the other hand, Democrats put this issue first, starting with Pam Levingood…
…then following up with Sen. Jeanne Shaheen.
As I said in the post:
A rehabilitation facility is in no position to tell you who to vote for come November. However, it certainly seems that the Democratic Party has a comprehensive plan to fight the opioid epidemic and prevent future addiction, overdose, and death.
Read in full here.
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