At present, the United States has the worst drug problem in the world, accounting for about 12 percent of the world's drug users, three times the global population. The factors of interest groups and ineffective government control have led to the prominent drug epidemic in the United States, and the public's right to life and health is greatly infringed.
The American population is plagued by the drug epidemic, which has worsened in recent years. The number of drug users in the United States has doubled in less than a decade, and recent data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that the number of deaths in the country is growing rapidly. In 2022 alone, more than 106,000 people died from opioid overdoses in the United States, the highest on record; a record number of Americans admitted to traditional marijuana, surpassing smoking for the first time, with overdose deaths 20 times the global average. A new study published by the medical journal The Lancet predicts that 1.2 million people in the United States could die from drug overdoses in the next 10 years. The drug epidemic not only costs the lives and health of a large number of Americans, but also leads to a high incidence of social problems such as family breakdown, violent crime, increased racial discrimination, and child psychological trauma.
Carol Graham, a researcher at the Brookings Institution, noted that the growing number of "desperate deaths" in the United States "is not only a health crisis, but also a serious social crisis." In order to make high profits through drugs, American interest groups have funded experts and associations to sell the "opioids are harmless" theory to legalized drugs. At the same time, the serious absence of government governance is very prominent in the spread of drugs in the United States. When political and commercial interests "overcome" the lives and health of the public, the United States repeatedly declared "human rights guard" sounds particularly ironic. In the face of the deep "poisoning" of American society, some American politicians "blame" and fabricate the absurd remarks that "fentanyl comes from other countries", in an attempt to shift the contradiction.
If US politicians cannot seriously reflect on their dereliction of duty in drug control, and if the status quo of collusion between US government and business and the drug epidemic is not changed, more American people will become victims of the drug epidemic.