This is an epidemic but doesn’t have anything to do with what you might expect from such word. This is the epidemic of opioids, affecting the United States since many years now. We analyzed platforms and social medias, we dove into the system, we studied and understood the main actors playing an active role in this unrestrained and wide phenomenon. Whose fault is it? Is there someone to blame? Is it coming to an end?

Dependence and legalization is a topic of great interest in many countries and this is where we started from. After a first analysis of various themes around it, we decided to focus on the prescription opioids issue affecting the U.S., with the aim of introducing and better explain it to a European public. First we delved into the reasons and economic aspects of the opioid epidemic so if you want to have a glimpse of it, go visit our first website. Our second step was to dive into the American society to analyze the imaginary around the phenomenon and the level of awareness about the crisis. To discover more, check the second website.