Friday 22 September 2017
“How did we get here?” That seems to be the automatic first response from anyone coming to realization about the depths of this country’s opioid epidemic. This summer has been eye-opening for people who don’t live in areas typically riddled with overdose cases. But the mounting death tolls sweeping large cities and small communities as a result of crippling abuse of heroin, fentanyl, and prescription painkillers have made it impossible for anyone, even those geographically removed from the crisis, to look away. Drug use in and of itself is not shocking; but for too long we’ve all found comfort in…
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