FROM: Shelby Reams Senior Advisor to the President for Domestic Policy
DATE: May 29, 2018
SUBJECT: Reducing deaths in the United States caused by the opioid epidemic.
The United States is currently in an opioid epidemic that has only continued to drastically increase. Each year the total of deaths caused by opioids continues to increase so to fight this ongoing epidemic we need to look for a permanent long term solution. In this memo...
According to the White House, as of the year 2016 drug overdoses have become the leading causes of death in the United States with 63,632 people dead and 42, 249 of these people dying from opioid overdose.
