Painkillers now kill more Americans than any illegal drug
This seems like a particularly limited article, although a better slant than many.  The NY Times just had this (also not wonderful, but with some additional information) article a few days ago:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;03&#x2F;07&#x2F;us&#x2F;heroin-epidemic-increasingly-seeps-into-public-view.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;03&#x2F;07&#x2F;us&#x2F;heroin-epidemic-increas...</a><p>While the title mentions heroin, the article at least mentions that deaths are frequently due to more deadly prescription painkillers being mixed in.  One thing I wonder that I haven&#x27;t seen addressed (I&#x27;m not sure if there is even data available) is how many overdose deaths are due to use of multiple drugs at the same time (alcohol for example makes many drugs more deadly).<p>Hopefully there will be more and better reporting on the issue.  IIRC (and wikipedia agrees at least), these numbers mean that drug overdoes are now killing non-trivially more people in the US than car accidents.