When was this article written? Last year? there is a lot more data out there and it is all bad.. If you're going to write things are getting worse with Opioids, perform the research for the latest data.

If "The opioid epidemic appears to be hurting white Americans more than any other group," then why are those hands in the photo not white? Why are negatives associated with every skin color other than white?

The heroin epidemic is far worst but its not anywhere in the media. Opiates they say are far more powerful & a danger to the street sales of heroin imports. The media & the law is turning America's culture into pot heads

Until Liberal Democrats come to understand that it is their policies of open borders and decriminalization of weed sales that is causing this there is little that can be done. Until you get real with the dealers selling cheap heroin from Mexico that often is laced with Fentanyl (the real killer lately), there is nothing you can do. We need to use and implement the death penalty immediately for anyone caught distributing Fentanyl, even if it is cut into heroin. As to the drug companies, well they have some guilt but the reality is prescriptions are way down over the last few years while death rates keep going up. So while they may have gotten some people addicted, we all need to realize why they are dying, namely heroin and heroin cut with Fentanyl. On the positive side, the 2018 and 2020 elections will show positive results for Republicans as many Democrats will no longer be voting. Of course that's not a problem in some Democrat bastions like Chicago where the dead vote early and often.

Those dang Mexicans bad hombres selling opioids to those poor white folks. When is the wall going to get built???