Opioids & Drug-Overdose Epidemic: Blame Game Continues

Last week brought awful news from the CDC, and for a change it wasn’t about COVID-19: After dipping slightly in 2018, raising hopes that the drug epidemic had finally started to wane, fatal overdoses hit a record high in 2019, climbing above 70,000, according to the agency’s preliminary tally.

Then, this Monday, the National Bureau of Economic Research launched another salvo in the war over who’s to blame.

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Last week brought awful news from the CDC, and for a change it wasn’t about COVID-19: After dipping slightly in 2018, raising hopes that the drug epidemic had finally started to wane, fatal overdoses hit a record high in 2019, climbing above 70,000, according to the agency’s preliminary tally.

Then, this Monday, the National Bureau of Economic Research launched another salvo in the war over who’s to blame.