Over 30,000 Americans were killed last year by illegals flooding opioids into our country, so cry me a river over some illegals being deported the hell back to their own country.
No dude. Legal opioids prescriptions are killing Americans not the illegals. They are also manufactured legally here in US. Are you playing dumb again or just purely ignorance,
Americans still lead the world in something: Use of highly addictive opioids
Americans are in more pain than any other population around the world. At least, that's the conclusion that can be drawn from one startling number from recent years: Approximately 80 percent of the global opioid supply is consumed in the United States.
Pain drugs are the second-largest pharmaceutical class globally, after cancer medicines. "There was about 300 million pain prescriptions written in 2015," Irina Koffler, senior analyst, specialty pharma, Mizuho Securities USA, told CNBC.
The 300 million pain prescriptions equal a $24 billion market, Koffler said, but it's not a market evenly divided around the globe. Rampant use of opioids in the United States, which represents only 5 percent of the global population, points to a larger divide between affluent nations and the rest of the world when it comes to prescription painkillers.