How the pandemic helped spread fentanyl across the US and drive opioid overdose deaths to a grim new high
- Written by: Andrew Kolodny, Co-Director of Opioid Policy Research, Brandeis University
Emblems of America's epidemics.David Gannon/AFP via Getty ImagesFor the past 20 years, I have been engaged in efforts to end the opioid epidemic, as a public health official, researcher and clinician. And for every one of those years I have looked on as the number of deaths from drug overdoses has set a new record high.
Yet even knowing that trend...
