This horrific number represents a 16% increase over the previous year’s total of 92,000. Enormous numbers of people are drowning in a socio-economic tsunami. This number of drug deaths, more than double the number in 2015, points to something terrible happening in the lives of millions of Americans. Too many people see no future, no hope, with their only solace found in chemical oblivion. Suppurating societal wounds that have been inflicted over and over again are reaching the marrow, and those responsible for the trail of destruction feel nothing but a desire to spread their disease further.
