Americans consume more
illicit drugs per capita than anyone else in the world;
about 6% of the U.S. population uses them regularly.
One such drug, fentanyl – a synthetic opioid that’s
50 to 100 times more potent than morphine – is the leading reason
U.S. overdose deaths have surged in recent years. While the rate of fentanyl overdose deaths
has dipped a bit recently, it’s still vastly higher than it was just five years ago.
The Taiwan government’s plan to liberalise tariff-free imports of agricultural produce from China and other countries for processing in free economic pilot zones, which will then be exported as ‘Made in Taiwan’ items, may mean suicide for Taiwanese farmers if approved by the national legislature.