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Congress has the opportunity, over the next year, to give tens ofthousands of America's most disadvantaged children a much brighterfuture.

Congress has the opportunity, over the next year, to give tens ofthousands of America's most disadvantaged children a much brighterfuture.

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Tomas Philipson , Eric Sun The US is the epicentre of opioid misuse and associated harms, with an average of 128 deaths occurring each day in 2018 from opioid overdoses – more deaths than from any other drug crisis in the country’s history. Fatal opioid overdoses have exceeded the American death count from the Vietnam War, and in 2017, they also surpassed auto fatalities.  The costs of opioid misuse extend far beyond mortality and into domains such as morbidity, healthcare systems, labour markets, child wellbeing, and crime. Opioid misuse is estimated to cost the US over $500 billion ann...