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Opioid Fight Needs New Strategy, Cabinet Leadership: Report
2022-02-08 15:22:23
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Opioid Fight Needs New Strategy, Cabinet Leadership: Report
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. needs a nimble, multipronged strategy and Cabinet-level leadership to counter its festering overdose epidemic, a bipartisan congressional commission advises. With vastly powerful synthetic drugs like fentanyl driving record overdose deaths, the scourge of opioids awaits... Read More
US Overdose Deaths Hit Record 93,000 in Pandemic Last Year
2021-07-14 14:08:40
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US Overdose Deaths Hit Record 93,000 in Pandemic Last Year
NEW YORK (AP) — Overdose deaths soared to a record 93,000 last year in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. government reported Wednesday. That estimate far eclipses the high of about 72,000 drug overdose deaths reached the previous... Read More
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