Pre-Collegiate

Carolyn Colman, Jones College Prep, Chicago, IL https://doi.org/10.51627/PGHR.2020.06.00009 Opioid addiction is increasingly becoming a crisis throughout the world. In 2016, staggering statistics show “the opioid epidemic accounted for close to 80% of the 64,000 drug-related deaths in the United States and is now the country’s leading cause of accidental deaths” (Goodman-Meza). This problem is not exclusive to the United States: “Because of their capacity to cause respiratory