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09/26/2017 / By JD Heyes

America’s opioid epidemic is killing so many people that medical examiners can’t keep up with the body count

The numbers of Americans dying from the escalating opioid epidemic are skyrocketing so quickly that local medical examiners now have a backlog of autopsy cases that will stretch into next year. As reported by the U.K.’s Daily Mail, the seemingly uncontrollable rise in opioid addiction is taxing the services of local medical examiners to the […]

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