Drug Policy Alliance: Statement on New CDC Overdose Data Showing Highest Death Count in History
December 19, 2020
December 19, 2020
NEW YORK, Dec. 19 (TNSRep) -- The Drug Policy Alliance issued the following statement:
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In response to new CDC provisional overdose counts (nearly 80,000) for the 12 months leading up to May 2020, which show an alarming increase in deaths and accounting for the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Sheila Vakharia, PhD, Deputy Director of the Department of Research and Academic Engagement at the Drug Policy Alliance, released the following statement & analysis:< . . .
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In response to new CDC provisional overdose counts (nearly 80,000) for the 12 months leading up to May 2020, which show an alarming increase in deaths and accounting for the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Sheila Vakharia, PhD, Deputy Director of the Department of Research and Academic Engagement at the Drug Policy Alliance, released the following statement & analysis:< . . .