The fact that the United States is losing its desperate battle against such deadly drugs as heroin and fentanyl has already been reported by various media sources, including
prominent publications like Economist.
Last February, in his address to members of the US Congress, US President Donald Trump promised to put an end to America's "terrible drug epidemic." However, the goal of pulling the plug on the scourge of opioid abuse in America is looking more challenging by the day.
To some extent, this challenge is being aggravated by the fact that drug abuse has been transformed into a form of business that has already become the fastest booming sector of the US economy. As for the government itself, they've been reluctant to take any decisive actions so far.
The fact that drug money are not just poisoning US business circles, but political ones as well, has recently manifested itself in the forced resignation of six US diplomats employed by the US Embassy in Afghanistan on grounds of possession of illegal drugs, Associated Press
reports. Without a doubt, this will casts a dark shadow on every US official operating in Afghanistan, since there's ever increasing number of reports that America's "war on drugs" is only making the problem much, much worse.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
in the year 2015 alone more than 52,000 Americans died of drug overdoses, which translates into one death every ten minutes. Approximately 33,000 of these fatal overdoses—nearly two-thirds of them—were from opioids, including prescription painkillers, and heroin.
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