“This illness is not to end in death, but is for the glory of God,” Jesus says of Lazarus’ illness in this Sunday’s gospel. Sadly, the scourge of opioid addiction is ending an increasing number of lives in misery and death rather than glory.

“We must not lose any more people, many in the prime of their lives, to drug overdoses.”

It's estimated that about 80 percent of heroin users transitioned to heroin from prescription opioids.