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The silent epidemic: drug overdose deaths surge in California pre-pandemic Sydney Kurle | Jan 15, 2021 Share this: Research provided by California Health Policy Strategies (CHPS) shows that the rate of increases of overdose deaths in California far surpasses the national rate of increase as of May 2020. Experts say this trend has increased as the pandemic has continued.
California saw 7,121 deaths reported as drug overdoses in the May 2020 12 month-ending period, the national number at the same time was 79,251. This is part of a skyrocketing rise, with overdose deaths in California up 26.8 percent in the period between June 2019 and June 2020. Nationally, in that same time frame, deaths were up 21.3 percent. ....