A study was conducted to draw statistics on hours spent by U.S. Parents and their Families towards Health Care with children with special need. Around 1.5 Billion Hours spent every year with $17.6 Billion as lost wages.
If the US government is going to turn a blind eye to the issue of prescription opioid abuse and heroin use, the new trend wherein more people in the country are dying from drug overdoses compared to motor vehicle crashes every year will continue; more than 28,600 lives would be lost annually as it was in 2014.