Opioid Knows No Color or Economic Status: Crossing Over to Drug Addictions

作     者：James Shumpert Frederick M.G.Evans 

作者机构：South Carolina State UniversityOrangeburgSouth CarolinaUSA 

出 版 物：《Journal of Literature and Art Studies》 (文学与艺术研究（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2020年第10卷第2期

页      面：176-181页

学科分类：081704[工学-应用化学] 07[理学] 08[工学] 0817[工学-化学工程与技术] 070303[理学-有机化学] 0703[理学-化学] 

主　　题：opioids drug addiction opioid drug abuse warr on drugs opioid epidemic 

摘      要：Opioid crisis continues to gain ground in the United States with little regards to color or economic *** than 800 people die weekly from opioid-related overdosestotally well over 42,000 deaths in 2016,and the number is ***,the opioid overdose deaths involved an estimated 40%prescription opioid *** reported by the National Drug Institute(2017),opioid addiction is often described as an“equal opportunityproblem that can afflict people from all races and walks of *** the crack crises of the past,the present opioid epidemic has extremely impacted White Americans not only the rural and poor,but also suburban and middle class or ***,current opioid overdoses deaths have increased for Whites,Blacks,and Hispanics,they have increased to a far greater degree for White *** to battle the increasing opioid epidemic have moved from incarceration to using legislation to limit the prescriptions being *** and federal laws are being enacted to placing limitations on opioid prescriptions.