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Drug overdose deaths have surged during pandemic, CDC data shows
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As the COVID-19 pandemic killed more than a half-million Americans, it also quietly inflamed what already was one of the country’s greatest public health crises: drug addiction.
That toll is the highest number of overdose deaths ever recorded in a year, since the opioid epidemic began in the 1990s, The New York Times reported. Overdose deaths were seen dropping slightly in 2018 for the first time in decades.More Related News