wasp spray. on average, 130 americans will die of an opioid overdose today. another 130 tomorrow and every day this year. that s according to the centers for disease control and prevention. it s an unrelenting epidemic. one that tears apart families, separates children from their parents and created a generation of addicts. new data from the cdc shows the suburbs are getting hard hit. jackie deangelis rolling with more. we re waiting for the crucial ruling in oklahoma on whether or not johnson & johnson can be held responsible for opioid addiction and overdoses. a lot of people digging into this topic and trying to get to the bottom of how its impacting certain communities. so a popular misconception is
you re seeing more in rural office. cdc data showing while that used to be the case, now it s the metro areas and the suburbs of those areas that are seeing the more overdoses overall. what is interesting is, axios points out, there was an inflection point and 2013. that was around the type that fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, started killing more people than heroin. so opioid usage has risen in urban areas and also the suburbs as well increasingly becoming a problem. we just got word, jackie, overall overdoses are down. yeah. it s an interesting report and gives us a glimmer of hope. the new york times reporting using cdc da that that drug overdoses dropped for the first time since 1990. so for three decades, we saw the overdose numbers going up and up