This world is a harmful place. There are many bad things in this world, but one thing that greatly affects the U.S. is drug abuse. There are a lot of different consequences for drug abuse, but the greatest one is death. A lot of drug overdoses and deaths are caused by prescription drugs. Ironically, a lot of doctors in the U.S. are giving these deadly prescription drugs. In 2014 alone, “About 128,000 people [died] from drugs prescribed to them” (Light, paragraph 2). This shows how important stopping prescription drug overdoses is. This paper will explain the history, effects and solutions to this awful problem.
