DRUG EPIDEMIC

Julie in Drug Education
December 6, 2019

The Fourth Wave of the Drug Epidemic Has Hit

By now we pretty much all know the story of the United States addiction epidemic. What started out as a prescription pill problem, morphed into a heroin issue and then a fentanyl crisis. These three overlapping events have often been referred to as the “Three Waves of The United States Opioid Epidemic.” We have now entered into the “Fourth Wave”…

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Julie in Addiction
December 23, 2017

Why Does The United States Life Expectancy Continue to Drop?

Being that the United States is one of the most industrialized nations in the world, one would think that our life expectancy would continually increase.

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