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In Connecticut, overdose deaths jumped to 1,385 in 2020, up from 134 in 2019. (Shutterstock)
ACROSS CONNECTICUT Overdose deaths in the United States soared by an unprecedented 30 percent during the pandemic, new numbers from the National Center for Health Statistics confirm. Connecticut was not exempt from the spike in fact, only two states reported decreased deaths.
The numbers, which recorded deaths between December 2019 and December 2020, show that an estimated 93,331 people died due to overdose in 2020, up from 72,151 in 2019.
Last year s number marked the highest number of deaths ever recorded in a single year.
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How can the U.S. reduce drug overdose deaths? A wide range of ideas awaits Biden Lenny Bernstein and Dan Diamond A stunning report this week that an estimated 93,000 people died of drug overdose deaths in 2020 has renewed attention on the nation’s other epidemic: the drug crisis that the government, health-care workers and street-level activists have been battling unsuccessfully for more than two decades. The Biden administration made the drug problem a top priority even before it came into office. But the worsening crisis is President Biden’s responsibility now, and it may demand more innovative approaches that advocates have been proposing for years and other countries have adopted.