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Drug Policy Alliance: Increase in Overdose Deaths in 2019 Raises Red Flag for Amid COVID-19
July 18, 2020
NEW YORK, July 18 -- The Drug Policy Alliance issued the following statement by Sheila Vakharia, deputy director of the Research and Academic Engagement Department, in response to preliminary Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data showing an increase in drug overdose deaths in 2019:

"While the increase in overdose deaths in the U.S. in 2019 is devastating, it is not at all surprising, and there is reason to believe that these deaths will continue to climb in 2020 as a . . .

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