Though overshadowed by the catastrophic death toll of the Covid-19 pandemic, America's longer-running drug epidemic continues to swing its deadly scythe through the nation nonetheless.
Drug overdoses killed more than 100,000 in the United States in the year-long period ending last November, continuing an alarming annual rise in such deaths, which more than doubled over the past six years as fentanyl poured into America.
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