If you as POTUS saw these kinds of numbers, what kind of punishment would you consider ?
United States
The United States accounts for approximately one quarter of the estimated number of drug-related deaths worldwide, including overdose deaths, which continue to rise. Mostly driven by opioids, overdose deaths in the united States more than tripled during the periof 1999-2015, from 16,849 to 52,404 annually.
Source: The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) ‘2017 World Drug Report’.
www. unodc.org/wdr2017/field/Booklet_1_EXSUM.pdf
In January 2017 the Center for Disease Control has estimated that the number of people in the USA who had died from overdosed in the 12 month period prior to January 2017 was 64,070.
Source: The Center for Disease Control ‘Provisional Counts of Drug Overdose deaths, as of 8/6/2017’. https:// www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/health_policy/monthly-drug-overdose-death-estimates.pdf