Bill O'Reilly here Friday, May 13, 2022.

You are listening to the O'Reilly update.

Here's what's happening this week in America.

Drug deaths reach a record high.

Two thirds of workers run out of money between paychecks.

Half of all US households plan on traveling this summer.

Poll show many folks still fear Friday the 13th, which is today.

Also ahead, update listeners sound off.

But first, a number of Americans dying from narcotics reaching an all time high.

Revised data from the CDC shows 110,000 people OD'd last year alone.

Most of the deaths were caused by fentanyl and heroin.

Drug addiction causes $250 billion in damage annually to this country.

A fifth, 20% of the entire US population now uses opioids.

Can you believe it?

The open southern border enables all of this.

66% of full time employees now live paycheck to paycheck.

A majority of us struggle to afford basic necessities like food and fuel.

Inflation not just hammering low income workers, 31% of people with 6 figure incomes say

they are unable to pay monthly bills.

Hard to believe, but that's what they say.

That number rises to 45% for those earning less than $50,000 a year.

And that is where inflation is hurting the most.

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