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Anchor lead: How should we approach helping people with opioid use disorder? Elizabeth Tracey reports Substance use disorders are causing an epidemic parallel to Covid-19, with over 80,000 deaths reported over the one year period ending in May 2020, according …

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Anchor lead: How many deaths due to opioid use disorder are suicides? Elizabeth Tracey reports During the one year period from May 2019 to May 2020, 81,000 people died of drug overdoses, CDC data reveal. That number is almost certainly …

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Anchor lead: In addition to Covid-19, overdose deaths are skyrocketing, Elizabeth Tracey reports From May 2019 to May 2020, deaths due to opioid overdose were almost twice as high as the previous year, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data …

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