20 minutes agoZuckerberg: Americans are dying more of drug addiction than they died in the Vietnam War.
Periskopi(9 years ago)
(9 years ago)Technology billionaire Mark Zuckerberg has visited American states for the past year, meeting people in communities outside Silicon Valley. His stop involved a center where he deals with drug addiction cases that left him a bad impression. Zuckerberg's eyes were covered with tears when he was [...]
Zuckerberg's eyes were covered with tears when he was speaking at Kansas University for his encounter with people affected by the addiction of substances of different drugs such as heroin, non-metadones as phantalil, etc.
According to Facebook founder, the extent of the opium crisis turned out to be the largest <x0 resource” during his American tour, reports “Sputnik International” Transmission Periscope.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, over 140 Americans die from opium overdoses every day. Referring to thousands of people who have fallen victim to opium addiction last year, Zuckerberg said that “more people died as a result of using this substance than they died from AIDS at the peak of the AIDS epidemic or by car accidents and gun violence. That means more Americans than died throughout the Vietnam War. ”
Zuckerberg called the situation about abuse of narcotics in the US as a “public health crisis”, stressing that it has not been addressed to receive adequate attention.
However, the billionaire was optimistic after saying there was a guide to address the problem and cited France's example, which managed to overcome its opium crisis in the 1990s.
In late October, US President Donald Trump declared the drug addiction crisis a national public health emergency.
Although the appointment does not imply any additional funding for resolving the crisis, it can still help channel existing emergency money, especially in expanding access to medical services in rural areas.
Deaths by drug overdoses amounted to over 60,000 deaths in the United States in 2016, according to the National Center for Statistics of Health. Drug addiction disease, such as OxyContin and Percocet, is said to account for 14,400 deaths in 2016, while heroin overdose killed more than 15,400. Non-metaadone synthetic opinions like phantanyl, meanwhile, were linked to more than 20,100 deaths.
For the sake of comparison, automobile victims accounted for 40,000 deaths in 2016, according to the US National Security Council and there were 17,250 murders, according to FBI data quoted by Kwarc Media./Periscopi/
