It’s become enough of a problem in American life that awareness ads about heroin use and other issues have permeated events like the Super Bowl and more.
The opioid epidemic has become a crisis in American life.
Even major celebrities like Jamie Lee Curtis have admitted to dealing with previous problems with opioids.
In 2017, more than 70,000 peope died from drug overdoses and of those, 68% were related to opioids according to information from the CDC.