‘It Didn’t Happen Overnight’: How the U.S. Opioid Crisis Got So Bad – Yahoo! Finance – Dec. 9, 2018

So far in 2017, more than 72,000 Americans have died from drug overdose deaths, which is a new record according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. By 2013, according to a study in Medical Care journal, the economic burden of the U.S. opioid crisis had already grown to about $78.5 billion. Read More.