After years of hitting the snooze button as alarms blared, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services officially declared the opioid epidemic a national public health emergency in October 2017.

By the time of the declaration, the annual death toll was staggering. On average, more than 140 Americans are dying every day from drug overdoses, with 91 of those deaths specifically due to opioids.

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