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February 17, 2025
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Yearly overdose deaths equal an ‘entire Vietnam war’ despite receding pandemic-era spike

Yearly overdose deaths equal an ‘entire Vietnam war’ despite receding pandemic-era spike

The rates of fatal drug overdoses stayed higher than expected in most states from 2020 to 2023 compared with trajectories before 2020, a cross-sectional analysis in JAMA Network Open showed.