Blockchain Technology Holds the Answer for the Prescription Drug Crisis

According to the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), overdose deaths involving prescription opioids were five times higher in 2016 than 1999. In that seventeen year period, over 200,000 Americans have died from opioid-related prescription overdoses. Every day, more than 1,000 patients are treated in emergency rooms and emergency departments for misusing prescription opioids.
One of the main reasons that the prescription drug crisis has gotten so bad is overprescriptio