Monica's Deep Dive: Drug Overdoses Hit an All-Time High. Is it the Pandemic or is it the Policies?

Show Notes:Drug overdose deaths reach all time high:

https://www.foxnews.com/us/us-drug-overdoses-2021-reaching-all-time-high-cdc

https://nida.nih.gov/drug-topics/trends-statistics/overdose-death-rates

https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/americas-heroin-epidemic/why-would-anyone-cut-heroin-fentanyl-it-s-cheap-these-n943796

https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20220208/mexico-major-source-of-fentanyl-entering-u-s-report-says

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2967031/

drug addiction industry:

https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/eyeing-1b-annual-sales-emergent-biosolutions-to-buy-narcan-maker-adapt-for-735m

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/01/29/1976908/0/en/United-States-Addiction-Rehab-Industry-Report-2020-SAMHSA-Survey-Findings-Major-Trends-Issues-Operating-Ratios-Competitor-Profiles-and-More.html

fentanyl rising c. 2014:

https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2020-03/DEA_GOV_DIR-008-20%20Fentanyl%20Flow%20in%20the%20United%20States_0.pdf

https://www.pharmaceutical-technology.com/features/fentanyl-go-wrong/

https://harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12954-015-0088-4

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4604997/

covid deaths in the us in 2020:

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/podcasts/2022/20220107/20220107.htm

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