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Inside a Killer Drug Epidemic: A Look at America’s Opioid Crisis

1/8/2017

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 on the West CTheOpioid addiction is America’s 50-state epidemic. It courses along Interstate highways in the form of cheap smuggled heroin, and flows out of “pill mill” clinics where pain medicine is handed out like candy. It has ripped through New England towns, where people overdose in the aisles of dollar stores, and it has ravaged coal country, where addicts speed-dial the sole doctor in town licensed to prescribe a medication.
Public health officials have called the current opioid epidemic the worst drug crisis in American history, killing more than 33,000 people in 2015. Overdose deaths were nearly equal to the number of deaths from car crashes. In 2015, for the first time, deaths from heroin alone surpassed gun homicides.
And there’s no sign it’s letting up, a team of New York Times reporters found as they examined the epidemic on the ground in states across the country. From New England to “safe injection” areas in the Pacific Northwest, communities are searching for a way out of a problem that can feel inescapable.

JULIE BOSMAN

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http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/06/us/opioid-crisis-epidemic.html?emc=edit_th_20170108&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=35747334&_r

opiA version of this article appears in print on January 8, 2017, on Page A11 of the New York edition with the headline: Opioid Tide From Coast to Coast. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribeoid epidemic killed more than33,000 people in 2015. What follows arestories of a national affliction that has sweptthe country, from cities on the West Coast to bedroom communities in the Northeast.oast to bedroom communities in the Northeast.
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