Keep in kind, some of the opioid deaths are effectively suicide. They might not be classified as such but rest assured plenty of those people reach their limit and take their own lives.
We’ve all heard for many years how horrible the opioid crisis is. I’ve probably heard that 110,000 number at some point. But without putting it in context of the big (non-medical) causes of death it’s hard to understand just how crazily big that number really is.
So yeah, it's *really* bad out there.