“Drug overdoses killed more Americans in 2016 than people killed in the Vietnam War which roughly killed over 58,000 US soldiers. How much bigger does addiction need to get in order for people to consider it important?”— Brittney Lindstrom, thoughtcatalog.com
“As many Americans will die in 2017 of drug overdoses as died in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan wars combined.”— Nicholas Kristof, nytimes.com