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It’s Too Soon to Celebrate the End of the Opioid Epidemic

Drug-overdose deaths have been down for six months, but it’s too early to know whether the good news will continue.
Source: Andrew Kelly / Reuters

The good news is that deaths from drug overdoses in America have slightly for the past six months, granting a reprieve from what seemed like an opioid epidemic with no end in sight. The bad news is that no one knows why, or if this trend will continue.

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