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How the pandemic helped spread fentanyl across the US and drive opioid overdose deaths to a grim new high

  • Written by Andrew Kolodny, Co-Director of Opioid Policy Research, Brandeis University
imageEmblems of America's epidemics.David Gannon/AFP via Getty Images

For the past 20 years, I have been engaged in efforts to end the opioid epidemic, as a public health official, researcher and clinician. And for every one of those years I have looked on as the number of deaths from drug overdoses has set a new record high.

Yet even knowing that trend...

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