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 2015: DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency) arrests 280 people, including 22 doctors and pharmacists, after a 15-month investigation following an increase in the number of opioid prescriptions.

 2016: CDC (Center of Disease Control) releases guidance on prescribing opioids to pain patients.

 2017: President Donald Trump signs an executive order for the creation of a commission dedicated to the opioid problem. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie becomes chairman, and the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, becomes his adviser.

 April 2018: U.S. Surgeon General recommends Americans carry naloxone (works antagonistically to opiates).

 May 2018: The Journal of the American Medical Association publishes a study showing that synthetic opioids such as “fentanyl” had caused 46% of opioid-associated deaths in 2016—a threefold increase since 2010.

 December 2018: The CDC reports that fentanyl represents the most common opioid overdose deaths. From 2013 – 2016, the rate of overdoses from synthetic opiates increased at a rate of 113% per year.