How many people died of narcotic overdoses in 2021 (as stated)?

Dr. Joshua John-Ram SchacterDr. Joshua Schacter, DO FAAOS, is America’s Holistic Orthopedic Surgeon, with nearly two decades of surgical expertise.

Pain Pills Are Hurting You More Than Helping!

22 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter (speaker) warns that narcotic pain pills commonly used for joint pain are harmful: they cause addiction, have driven a major opioid overdose problem (he cites over 180,000 narcotic overdose deaths in 2021), and can make pain worse over time rather than heal joints. He emphasizes that no drug alone will heal joint pain and that meaningful health changes are required.

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Not only that, but they make your pain worse with time. So not only do they mask the symptoms and make it worse, they're slowly killing us.
Narcotic pain pills that we'll typically use to treat joint pain really, really suck, guys. They're really bad for us. They cause a lot of addiction. We're in the middle of the worst opioid addiction epidemic in history. Over 180,000 people died of narcotic overdoses in 2021. It's just a huge problem. Not only that, but they make your pain worse with time. So not only do they mask the symptoms and make it. They're slowly killing us over time. You know, the medicine that you're using to treat your pain is slowly, slowly taking your life. And no drug is ever going to heal your joint pain, not by itself, not without making significant changes to your health and to the health of your joint.