Hope In The Opioid Crisis? Overdose Deaths Appear To Be Leveling Off As States Intensify Efforts To Save Lives

USA TODAY, Statesman Journal
Sun, 01/20/2019 - 1:14pm

Preliminary data from the CDC show slight declines in overdose deaths in the first few months of 2018

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