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Drug overdose and poisoning deaths are at epidemic levels in the U.S. In 2021, the most recent year we have complete data [1], 106,699 deaths were associated with drugs. This is nearly 300 people everyday. And of these deaths, 70,601 or nearly 70% were connected with opioids; a class of drugs that include heroin, oxycodone, morphine and of course, fentanyl [2, 3, 4], the drug we have heard so much about.
Read MoreBefore the COVID19 pandemic started to dominate the collective consciousness, the opioid crisis in the United States was widely recognized as one of the most important public health emergencies of our time. In 2019, almost 50,000 people died from an opioid overdose in the United States, almost sixfold the level from 2000. In 2020, the number of opioid-related deaths surged almost 40% from the prior year to about 69,000 and then spiked a further 20% to almost 81,000 deaths in 2021.
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