Facts of US drug crisisIt’s useful even for Filipinos to understand the ramifications of the US drug crisis, because it can help us understand our own embattlement. I am directing all executive agencies to use every appropriate emergency authority to fight the opioid crisis. The opioid epidemic or opioid crisis is the rapid increase in the use of prescription and non-prescription opioid drugs in the United States and Canada in the 2010s. Mention of the drug Fentanyl will ring a bell with Filipinos. As America struggles against its deadly drug crisis, the United Nations has not noticed.

Source: Manila Times October 30, 2017 16:41 UTC