The brain of the former NFL player who killed five people in South Carolina before fatally shooting himself will be tested for a degenerative disease that has affected a number of pro athletes.

Hope for the opioid crisis: It's no secret that opioid deaths and overdoses are at crisis levels in the US. Law enforcement received $3 million to target pill mills that violated the new laws. Jim Hall, a Nova Southeastern University epidemiologist who studies Floridas drug problems, said any pill mills that didnt close voluntarily or comply with the new laws got raided. But while the pill mills closed, their legacy is the current heroin crisis. Hall said every day the pill mills were open they created more addicts, and those numbers would have continued to rise if they hadnt eventually been targeted.

Hope for the opioid crisis: It's no secret that opioid deaths and overdoses are at crisis levels in the US. Law enforcement received $3 million to target pill mills that violated the new laws. Jim Hall, a Nova Southeastern University epidemiologist who studies Floridas drug problems, said any pill mills that didnt close voluntarily or comply with the new laws got raided. But while the pill mills closed, their legacy is the current heroin crisis. Hall said every day the pill mills were open they created more addicts, and those numbers would have continued to rise if they hadnt eventually been targeted.