The war on drugs has been long, hard-fought and expensive.
Since the 1970s, America has battled wave after wave of new, more lethal drugs hitting our streets from crack cocaine to heroin, crystal meth, OxyContin, fentanyl and synthetics, to name a few. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention puts the death by opioid overdose tally at nearly 500,000 people from 1999 to 2019.
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