The headlines of past days has caused me to rethink what is happening to American culture. Seventeen dead high schoolers should be enough to know things in America are not right.
I watched the Billy Graham memorial at the Capitol, and then the funeral in Charlotte North Carolina.
The opioid crisis is now killing sixty thousand Americans a year.
There are so many overdose deaths, the ‘life expectancy tables’ are being affected. The increased death rate has reduced the average life expectancy in the United States when compared to what it was just a few years ago.
Andrew Sullivan, writing on opioids in The New Yorker in February, makes the case as to why. He details the history of opioids including its use in colonial America, the civil war era, and now.