The opiote epidemic is actually a rare issue where it has seemed there is, by partisan consensus about the urgency of this issue. There's certainly a political split on particular harm reduction measures such as syringe exchange that we've seen play out. The fight against the opioid epidemic should not come at the cost of the fight against the corono viris pandemic or vice sive.
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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