Sentences with phrase «health epidemic killing»

Today, arguably more than ever, Americans understand that gun violence is a public health epidemic killing innocent people, just the way a virus does.

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U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions» wide - ranging new crackdown on drug offenders could exacerbate one of America's most persistent public health tragedies: the heroin and opioid addiction epidemic that's been ravaging the country and killed nearly 35,000 Americans in 2015 alone.

«Today, we launch an aggressive assault on a public health crisis that is reaching epidemic proportions: the scourge of dangerous new drugs that are killing people and sending thousands upon thousands to emergency rooms in New York City and around the country,» U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement.

President Trump said the nation's opioid epidemic — which is killing more than 100 people each day — is the «worst drug crisis in American history» and declared it a public health emergency, pledging the nation's full resolve in overcoming it.

The White House just declared the opioid epidemic a national public health emergency, and that means all eyes are on opioids and what strategies we can use to fight this national health crisis that killed more than 15,000 Americans in 2015 alone.

The protagonist of Just Life is Samantha Lewis, a veterinarian who runs a no - kill shelter and gets drawn into the public health epidemic.