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Public News Service: Drug Overdose Deaths Are Down. Will COVID-19 Trigger an Increase?

For the first time in two decades, said John Auerbach, president and chief executive of the nonprofit Trust for America’s Health, U.S. deaths from drug overdoses, alcohol abuse and suicide leveled off in 2018. However, he warned that minority communities with lower wages typically report the highest numbers of preventable deaths, and that unemployment due to COVID-19 could reverse progress made in reducing drug abuse.
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