During Covid, more people in the U.S. died from overdose than ever before. Over 81,000 people, about the number of people who can fill a football stadium, lost their lives from June 2019 through May 2020 alone. That’s the highest number of overdose deaths ever recorded in a single year. The impact has been staggering and only increased with the isolation of Covid.

March 10 2021, 6:30 PM

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