Kerr, 74, had experienced increasing fatigue for about three months. His wife was out of town on business that fateful evening. When a friend called, Kerr mentioned he was having chest pains.
The alarming statistics are impacting Americans from all walks of life: 130 people die of opioid-related overdoses every day and 11 million people a year misuse prescription opioids.
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