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The Hill News – Weekly counts of all drug and opioid overdoses increased by as much as 45 percent...
The Day News – Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, another crisis has raged on, killing hundreds in Connecticut alone: opioid...
Fox News – SEARCY, Ark. – Since the pandemic, drug use and overdoses have skyrocketed in Arkansas. In 2020,...
CA: ‘We are seeing more people struggling’: Deaths, fatal overdoses rise among homeless
/ California, USALong Beach Post – Long Beach saw a 30% rise in total deaths among homeless people last year compared...
The Brandon Sun News – Such sites dealt with 15,000 overdoses and drug-related medical emergencies across the country between...
The Herald Dispatch News – HUNTINGTON — As the country stayed home in an attempt to curb the new...
WDTN News – DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost reports a spike in opioid overdoses in...
Increase in Fatal Drug Overdoses Across the United States Driven by Synthetic Opioids Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic
/ USACDC Health Alert Network (HAN) Advisory A new CDC Health Alert Network Advisory shows approximately 81,230 drug overdose deaths...
The Crime Report – The problem isn’t necessarily unique to Philadelphia. In fact, Washington D.C. noted that the continued...