The agents were particularly interested in the facility's practices when it came to an even smaller subset of those scheduled drugs: the highly addictive pain medicines
containing oxycodone and hydrocodone that have been at the center of the nation's opioid epidemic.
One key factor contributing to the trend is the major spike in fatalities related to drugs, including prescription painkillers
containing addictive opioids (like
oxycodone and fentanyl) and illegal drugs like heroin; another is the second straight year that gun deaths have risen after 15 years of remaining relatively stable.