Opioid Crisis: South Carolina Businesses Wrestling with Epidemic

Apr 06, 2018 03:23PM ● By Makayla Gay

In remarks prepared for delivery in his State of the State address in January, Gov. Henry McMaster said that for the last three years, there have been more opioid-related deaths in South Carolina than homicides and drunk-driving deaths combined. In 2016, this “silent hurricane” killed 616 people, he said.