It's always kind of a guessing game from year to year why drug overdoses are trending up or down. In part this depends in large part on the operating of an international legal market, which we don't understand fully. Some form of recovering alcohol or drug users helping each other has been a primary component of addiction treatment and main stream addiction treatment.
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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