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Coronavirus-related stress likely a factor in record overdose deaths, experts say

Overdose deaths hit a record 93,000 amid coronavirus last year due to pandemic-driven instabilities and loss of support systems, inaccess to medical care and the increasing presence of deadly synthetic opioids, top experts in addiction suspect. “It’s a horrifically tragic loss of life, particularly considering where we have been going as a country, as a… Read More »

Health experts are anxious to prevent a ‘catastrophic’ winter flu season

Medics in a pneumonia ward in the Philippines. Ezra Acayan | Getty Images News | Getty Images LONDON — Mass vaccination campaigns are being rolled out across the developed world, but many countries are still contending with surges in coronavirus infections and new strains, such as the highly infectious delta variant. And now health experts… Read More »