On average, 78 people a day die from heroin or painkiller overdoses in the USA, is statement identifying theme of the text.
Explanation:
The article which is named The New Painkiller Epidemic has been written by Shelby Ostergaard. In this article Shelby talks about the spike in the use of the pain killer.
The increase in the use of the pain killer has come like an epidemic and what are the reasons and the causes leading to this epidemic are the things which are discussed in this article by Shelby.
