PROPHECIES CONCERNING THE LAST DAYS __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Universal drug
usage (The word "sorceries"
here can also refer to drugs.) Rev.
9:21
Revelation 9:21 King James Version
(KJV)
21 Neither
repented they of their murders, nor
of their sorceries, nor of their
fornication, nor of their thefts.
Jan
2019 - Every day,
more than 130 people in the
United States die after
overdosing on opioids
The Midwestern region saw
opioid overdoses increase 70
percent from July 2016
through September 2017
In the late 1990s,
pharmaceutical companies
reassured the medical
community that patients would
not become addicted to
prescription opioid pain
relievers, and healthcare
providers began to prescribe
them at greater rates. This
subsequently led to
widespread diversion and
misuse of these medications
before it became clear that
these medications could
indeed be highly
addictive.3,4 Opioid overdose
rates began to increase. In
2017, more than 47,000
Americans died as a result of
an opioid overdose, including
prescription opioids, heroin,
and illicitly manufactured
fentanyl, a powerful
synthetic opioid.1 That same
year, an estimated 1.7
million people in the United
States suffered from
substance use disorders
related to prescription
opioid pain relievers, and
652,000 suffered from a
heroin use disorder (not
mutually exclusive)
2018
- Since 2013, the
number of overdose deaths
associated with fentanyls and
similar drugs has grown to
more than 28,000 from 3,000.
Deaths involving fentanyls
increased more than 45
percent in 2017 alone.
2017-
There were 70,237 drug
overdose deaths in the United
States. Drug overdose deaths
involving heroin rose from
1,960 in 1999 to 15,482 in
2017. Globally, there
is an estimated minimum of
190,900 premature deaths
caused by drugs (range:
115,900 to 230,100).
