It kills more people than car accidents every year. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) classified it as an epidemic and the World Health Organization (WHO) reported it threatened the achievements of modern medicine.
Prescription drug abuse is a global problem, and the U.S. is the world’s biggest addict.
Americans account for 99 percent of the world’s hydrocodone (Vicodin) consumption, 80 percent of the world’s oxycodone (Percocet and Oxycontin) consumption and 65 percent of the world’s hydromorphone (Dilaudid) consumption, according to the New York Times.
Major causes of preventable death – like car accidents – have been on the decline, but deaths from drug abuse doubled in the last decade, according to the L.A.
