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The Opioid Crisis, already serious, has intensified during coronavirus pandemic

9 mins | Sep 15, 2020
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Overdose deaths rise as job losses and stress from COVID-19 destabilise people struggling with addiction. When the coronavirus pandemic struck, the U.S. was already in the grip of an expanding drug-overdose crisis. It has only got worse since then. Jon Kamp and Arian Campo-Flores investigate for The Wall Street Journal.

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