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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.
CDC: Overdose Deaths Have Surged During Pandemic
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New York Times
WASHINGTON - More than 87,000 Americans died of drug overdoses over the 12-month period that ended in September, according to preliminary federal data, eclipsing the toll from any year since the opioid epidemic began in the 1990s.
The surge represents an increasingly urgent public health crisis, one that has drawn less attention and fewer resources while the nation has battled the coronavirus pandemic.
Deaths from overdoses started rising again in the months leading up to the coronavirus pandemic - after dropping slightly in 2018 for the first time in decades - and it is hard to gauge just how closely the two phenomena are linked. But the pandemic unquestionably exacerbated the trend, which grew much worse last spring: The biggest jump in overdose deaths took place in April and May, when fear and stress were rampant, job losses were multiplying and the strictest lockdown measures were in ef
Overdose deaths have surged during the pandemic, CDC says
By Abby Goodnough New York Times,Updated April 14, 2021, 3:12 p.m.
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Members of Maine s recovery community raised black balloons into the sky to honor those who have died due to accidental overdoses. 2020 was the deadliest year for overdoses in Maine.Erin Clark/Globe Staff
WASHINGTON â More than 87,000 Americans died of drug overdoses over the 12-month period that ended in September, according to preliminary federal data, eclipsing the toll from any year since the opioid epidemic began in the 1990s.
The surge represents an increasingly urgent public health crisis, one that has drawn less attention and fewer resources while the nation has battled the coronavirus pandemic.
US Supreme Court Justice, Louis Brandeis, 1932: “It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.”
You governors are now seeing, whether you like it or not, a competitive situation developing among the states.
Some states are loosening the COVID restrictions; others are tightening them.
From New York to Florida. From lockdowns to freedom
In this ongoing process, for example, a remarkable exodus is occurring -from New York to Florida. From lockdowns to freedom.