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LurkerMom:
A New York City man stood on a street Wednesday with a needle dangling from his arm as the drug crisis plagues citizens.
Here's a graph of drug overdose deaths for the past twenty years (click the second chart on the page to enlarge the chart). In fact, heroin overdose deaths are declining. Benzodiazepine and prescription overdose deaths are flat. And cocaine and methamphetamine over dose deaths are rising.
But the most dramatic rise in overdose deaths is in synthetic opioids.
Tell me, when was the most significant spike in synthetic opioid deaths?
HINT: DURING THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION.
Second Chart.
nida.nih.gov - Overdose death rates 