claim: "we’re losing as many people to heroin and opioid overdoses as we lost to the aids epidemic at its peak."
author: andrew cuomo
evidence_1: jun 22, 2016 ... ... in opioid-related deaths. "we're losing as many people to heroin and opioid  overdoses as we lost to the aids epidemic at its peak," said gov.
evidence_2: dec 21, 2017 ... 2015 was the worst year for drug overdose deaths. ... if nothing is done, we can  expect a lot of people to die: a forecast by stat concluded ... the us risks losing  the equivalent of a whole american city in just one decade. ... car crashes, and  hiv/aids ever killed in one year in the us, and a higher death toll ...
evidence_3: feb 20, 2018 ... opium, heroin, morphine, and a universe of synthetic opioids, ... american lives  last year than were lost in the entire vietnam war. overdose deaths are higher  than in the peak year of aids and far higher .... and some part of being free from  all pain makes you indifferent to ...... trump is losing the shutdown.
evidence_4: mar 29, 2017 ... drug overdoses now kill more americans than hiv/aids did at its ... to  understand how and why, i've put together a series of maps and ... drug  overdoses in 2015 also killed more people in the us than hiv/aids did during its  peak in 1995. ... to heroin as they or their sources of drugs lost their prescriptions.
evidence_5: jan 29, 2018 ... the daily death toll from drug overdoses is like a 737 crashing and killing ... “the  problem is we're not acting like it is. ... marches in every major u.s. city during the  aids crisis, with people asking ... million americans abused prescription opioids,  nearly 1 million used heroin ... “too many lives are being lost.