Forbes April 22, 2022
The advent of Covid-19 has added another deadly disease to the National Safety Council’s list of the things that are most likely to kill Americans, but another detail on the newest release of the report might even be more sobering.
Somewhat overshadowed by the pandemic, overdose deaths have once again spiked in the United States, making the lifetimes odds to die from an opioid overdose now more likely than dying from a car crash or from suicide.
The Biden administration is taking another stab at trying to tackle the ever-growing problem of opioids in the country, having released the 2022 National Drug Control Strategy on Thursday. According to a White House statement, the strategy will focus both on fighting untreated...