There was an extented period of when, you know, we didn't leave our homes. And that just really caused me to feel helpless, as if i were just sitting on my hand while my population, my people, are dying. I lost quite a few people, actually, that i personally knew,. One of which was a very good friend of mine who had four years in recovery. It was a thriving electrician. He had his own business. You know, from the outside looking in, he had everything together. But then the pandemic hit and he passed away towards the end of may. What to him?
The pandemic wiped out the slow but steady progress America had been making against another deadly disease: opioid addiction. The Washington Post’s Peter Jamison explains.
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