This video lecture given by Dr. Andrew Kolodny, Executive Director of Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing, at the Prescription Drug Abuse & Heroin Summit in San Diego, California, explores how the United States is in the midst of a severe epidemic. Prescription opioid and heroin abuse are at epidemic levels throughout the United States. Dr. Kolodny discusses just what the United States needs to do and accomplish in order to save its citizens from succumbing to the effects of addiction.