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Opioid Epidemic Poised to Worsen as COVID-19 Bears Down

  • September 29, 2020

Health officials fighting opioid overdose numbers are waiting for a “tidal wave” as stress from the pandemic wears on addicts and patients taking the drugs. While states aren’t yet reporting the full impact of how the pandemic is hitting people in danger of overdosing, Dr. Sarah Wakeman, an addiction medicine specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital, said the country is in the middle of a “slow tsunami of deaths” from drug overdoses, according to the Boston...