Edited sentence: Education, therapy, help for addicts and prescribing non-opioid medication to pain patients are alternative ways to help fight the opioid epidemic.It destroys lives and does not discriminate, claiming lives regardless of age, race, wealth or location.More needs to be done to end the opioid crisis.The misuse of and addiction to prescription opioids and heroin has dramatically increased over the past decade.The opioid epidemic continues to grow across the nation