by Michael Snyder, The Economic Collapse Blog:

In our rotting, decaying society, there are literally hordes of rotting, decaying people in the streets.  In this article, I am going to tell you about an immensely powerful drug that is taking America by storm.  It makes people stagger about like zombies, and it also causes raw, gaping wounds that will literally rot away arms and legs if left untreated.  Of course the U.S. was already facing an unprecedented drug crisis even before this new “zombie drug” started to spread like wildfire.  More than a million Americans have died of a drug overdose since 1999, and the drug overdose epidemic has actually greatly accelerated within the past few years.  At this point, more than 100,000 Americans a year are dying from a drug overdose.  According to the CDC, someone dies from an overdose in this country every five minutes, and most of those drug overdose deaths are being caused by a drug known as fentanyl.  An amount of fentanyl equivalent to a grain of rice is enough to kill a person, and right now fentanyl is actually the leading cause of death for Americans between the ages of 18 and 45…