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The leading cause of death in America for individuals aged 50 and younger is overdose, particularly from opiates. In the past year, there were 101,212,000 overdoses, resulting in the tragic loss of lives every 90 seconds. This issue has been described as a "massacre" and has prompted efforts to increase awareness and understanding of addiction. Efforts are also being made to bring together doctors and those who have lost loved ones to addiction in order to address and prevent further tragedies.

GDL Jason Wahler

Uh Addiction has been around for for a long time now , right ? It is the actually the leading cause of death in America for 50 year old individuals and younger . Uh It is a primary chronic and progressive disease and there has not been enough research done around specifically the brain and looking at neuroplasticity and actually seeing and looking for a cure .

GDL Jason Wahler

I call it a massacre . You know , I mean , it's how many people it's killing . It's , it's an amazing medication that can prevent somebody from overdosing .

GDL Jason Wahler

Um , and that's again , is , you're not including , you know , stress of the liver , car accidents , you know , methamphetamine , you're not including all the other benzodiazepines , everything else that goes with it . So it's a killer man . It's really taken , taken over and , and , uh , it's about time something is , is done .

GDL Jason Wahler

And unfortunately , we're in this rubber band phase where we're , you know , we're still back , we haven't even seen what's really yet to come and it's , it's really , it's scary . Um , but yeah , 100 and 1,212,000 overdoses this last year , uh , you know , somebody's dying every 90 seconds from an opiate overdose . Um , and that's again , is , you're not including , you know , stress of the liver , car accidents , you know , methamphetamine , you're not including all the other benzodiazepines , everything else that goes with it .

GDL Jason Wahler

So , uh , it's at that place where , I mean , now we this , this last year , you know , I mean , COVID did not help , help the situation with , with addiction isolation is , is one is definitely not a benefit to us is for all humans . The number one form of happiness , uh longest living study at Harvard's around here connection . And so you actually remove all that .