Donald trump said that the epidemic of opioid achieved in the United States at the national level. According to Reuters, the presidential administration is drafting a document to officially declare the country a state of emergency.
“I officially declare that this is an emergency. We’re going to spend a lot of time, a lot of effort and a lot of money on this serious problem, which previously we have never had,” said trump.
The Agency cites to the Commission the White house about the opioid crisis, headed by the Governor of new Jersey Chris Christie, used every day from drug overdoses killed more than 100 Americans, and every three weeks die as many people as died in the terrorist attacks on the USA of 11 September 2001.
Opioids — drugs that are used as potent analgesics. The impact of drugs on the body compared with the effect from the use of opium.
The current situation with drugs in the US are often doctors. They are trying to appease patients, handing out prescriptions for powerful painkillers for everyone what for many citizens is the first step to addiction.