Vital Strategies: As Overdose Deaths Reach New Peak Nationally, New Partnership Funds Local Response for Pennsylvania Communities
August 26, 2020
August 26, 2020
NEW YORK, Aug. 26 -- Vital Strategies issued the following news release on Aug. 25:
Latest annual data demonstrate that 2019 was the worst year in the nation's decades-long drug overdose epidemic, claiming more than 72,000 lives, and 2020 data so far suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated the trend. While concerted efforts in Pennsylvania are helping the state to buck the national trend, it remains one of the most impacted, losing thousands of lives a year to overdo . . .
Latest annual data demonstrate that 2019 was the worst year in the nation's decades-long drug overdose epidemic, claiming more than 72,000 lives, and 2020 data so far suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated the trend. While concerted efforts in Pennsylvania are helping the state to buck the national trend, it remains one of the most impacted, losing thousands of lives a year to overdo . . .