Even in best-case scenario, opioid overdose deaths will keep rising until 2022
(LA Times Dodgers)

In the nation´s opioid epidemic, the carnage is far from over. A new projection of opioid overdose death rates suggests that even if there is steady progress in reducing prescription narcotic abuse across the country, the number of fatal overdoses - which reached 47,600 in 2017 - will rise sharply...