The Governor is devising a plan to combat Alabama’s opioid epidemic
By Chip Brownlee Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY—Seventy-eight people die in the US every day from opioid painkiller overdose, and the Yellowhammer State has the highest rate of painkiller prescribing in the country and one of the highest rates of opioid abuse in the country. Gov. Robert Bentley wants a better plan to attack the epidemic. … Continued