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In one year, drug overdoses killed more Americans than the entire Vietnam War did
2015 was the worst year for drug overdose deaths in US history. Then 2016 came along.
More Americans died of drug overdoses in 2016 than died in the entirety of the Vietnam War — the result of the US’s opioid epidemic.
That’s one takeaway from a new report by Josh Katz for the New York Times, based on preliminary data estimating how many Americans died of drug overdoses last year.
The official, more precise numbers will be available later in 2017 — once the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) finishes tabulating and verifying reports from across the US.
In the meantime, the Times contacted local and state agencies across the US to come up with a rough estimate. It calculated that 59,000 to 65,000 people died of overdoses last year, with a harder, but likely imprecise, number of 62,497.
Comment:
This was a news story from 2017.
I think that the fentanyl deaths have gotten worse.
Open borders kill more people than wars.
But the Democrats don't care.
Open borders gives them more power.