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The Opioid Crisis: Men Are More Than Twice As Likely To Die From Drug Overdose Than Women

While we’ve all been focusing on the Coronavirus pandemic – from the illness to the mask mandates to the dysfunctional education system to the protests – another crisis has been growing that isn’t getting the same amount of media attention: the opioid crisis.

By Lisa Britton3 min read
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The opioid crisis was bad enough before the pandemic, but since the world was flipped upside down in 2020, overdoses and overdose deaths have skyrocketed.