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Trump's 90-day plan for opioids has failed – here's a better one

Deaths caused by accidental drug overdoses in the US now exceed those from motor vehicle incidents and guns. The government has been all talk and little action

By Jessica Hamzelou

31 January 2018

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Synthetic drugs are all too easy to accidentally overdose on

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AMERICA’S opioid crisis has spiralled further out of control. The latest figures reveal that more people in the US are dying from opioid overdoses than from motor vehicle accidents. The country’s life expectancy has , thanks in part to drug overdose deaths.

“It is the highest level we’ve ever seen related to drug overdose deaths,” says , who served as director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) under former President Barack Obama and now directs…

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