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Is there finally hope in America's overdose crisis?

Oct 07, 20249 min
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In a twist that many addiction experts thought impossible, the decades long upward trend of opioid deaths in the United States has finally started to decline. And while there are plenty of theories, there are still very few answers as to why and how.

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