Can the rise of addiction treatment companies help alleviate the opiate crisis?

More Tennesseans died of opiate overdoses in 2014 than in motor vehicle accidents. The rate of fatal opiate overdoses has risen every year since 2011, according to the state Department of Health, and the increase of intravenous drug abuse has contributed to a Hepatitis C epidemic on top of the rising rate of addiction.

But the crisis is not Tennessee's alone to bear. Nationally, more than 16,000 people died due to opiate painkiller overdoses in 2013, and nearly 7,000 people are treated every day in emergency departments for drug misuse, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.