What is Donald Trump's solution to the war on drugs? President-elect opens up as U.S. reports 52,404 DEAD from overdosing last year

Thousands throw their lives away and no one bats an eye.

There are thousands of preventable deaths in the United States each year but so few people care it has become an invisible crisis with no end in sight.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - According to the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 52,404 people died from overdosing on drugs in 2015.

Of that number, 33,091 were due to opioids.

Videos of small children tugging at their parents' unresponsive bodies have been spreading across the internet but it is now so mainstream, no one cares.

Reports of children discovered in the back seats of cars while their overdosed parents are unconscious in the front seats have become old news.

In a breakdown of users by the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Heroin killed 10,050 Caucasians, 1,299 Hispanics and only 1,310 African Americans.

Natural and semisynthetics killed 10,774 Caucasians, 780 Hispanics and 883 African Americans, while synthetic opioids killed 7,995, 524 and 883 people respectively.

Finally, Methadone, used to treat pain or as a detoxifying agent, killed 2,725 Caucasians, 235 Hispanics and 247 African Americans last year.

While the public seems to have stopped caring, what is the government doing to stop these entirely preventable deaths from reaching even greater levels?

Illinois State's Attorney Robert Berlin recently claimed the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration "is seizing more and more but the reality is there's more that can be done.

"If we can reduce the amount that comes into the country, we'll limit the supply and, I think, reduce the number of users. That's a public safety win."

Republican president-elect Donald trump has promised to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which may severely restrict addicts from accessing necessary drug-weaning treatment.

Trump claims the best way to stop the rapidly rising drug crisis is to stop the supply smuggled into the United States by Mexican drug dealers. He also believes that the deportation of illegals participating in drug rings will make illegal drugs more difficult to access.

Trump explained: "My opinion is that the new way we need to deal with this epidemic is not only reducing supply but reducing demand. While I certainly support being aggressive with trafficking, I also support being aggressive with getting people into treatment."

Even if Obamacare is gone, Trump vowed to "dramatically expand access to treatment slots" but did not elaborate.

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