In 2021, around 70,000 people died from opioids in the United States.
new York Thomas D. Schiano works against the clock, every second counts in his fight for the patient’s life. The surgeon for liver transplants at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York says: “Our team is flying to Vermont right now.” There it is about recovering the intact liver of a 25-year-old drug victim and implanting it a few hours later in a patient in New York.
It could be good news: The US will be receiving more organs from donors this summer than ever before; the surgeons in the transplant centers are at their limit, the operating theaters are fully booked for weeks. But the cause of the boom is a national nightmare. The organ donors are people who have fallen victim to a drug wave – the deadliest ever seen in the United States.
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