LinkLinks Washington Post: Opioid deaths surged during coronavirus pandemic in D.C., Virginia and Maryland By Editor On May 23, 2021 Last updated May 23, 2021 71 Share Mary’s Center, a community health center with locations in D.C. and Maryland, started its addiction services program in 2015, offering medication-assisted treatment, naloxone training, counseling and a weekly recovery support group. Over the next five years, just four of their 600 patients overdosed and died. But that figure more than doubled in 2020, to 10 fatalities, a change the clinic attributes to the challenges of isolating during the coronavirus pandemic and the still-growing prevalence of the deadly synthetic fentanyl. 71 Share FacebookTwitterReddItWhatsAppEmailPrint
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