Most of us should be able to think of a LOT of other things that are much more of a "national crisis" than worrying about those who overdose on self-induced opioids.
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(1) The current NK and US "war of words" that threatens the lives of millions of people in Guam, NK, and the US.
(2) The continual war in Syria and the rest of the Middle East where we have US troops and that is killing, maiming, and displacing MILLIONS of innocent people.
(3) Crime in general that as a toll on innocent men, women, husbands, fathers, wives, and children who are victimized, assualted, raped, robbed, molested, abused, and murdered by brutal and selfish low-life criminals.
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THOSE are just some of the things I would rank as a "crisis." But self-induced overdoses of opioids? No.