Read about it here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/26/opinion/oregon-drug-decriminalization-addiction.html
NY Times confirms 93,000 overdose deaths in the US in 2020
This is bad news . About twenty-thousand more people died from overdose in 2020 than in 2019. The opiod crisis was already out of control, but the pandemic has proven that economic ambiguity and isolation incites drug-use. If you weren’t certain that addiction is connected to social, cultural and economic issues—here’s your proof.