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CDC Data Show Drug Overdose Deaths Have Surged during Pandemic

Friday, April 16, 2021   (0 Comments)

From Daily Beast website, published April 14: At least 87,000 drug overdose deaths were reported from October 2019 through September 2020—a 29 percent increase from the year before, according to CDC data reviewed by The New York Times.

Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, told the Times that many overdose deaths involve a mix of fentanyl or heroin with stimulants.

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