Opioid capital in West Virginia – Most drug deaths in the US

From Julia Kastein

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White House, October 2017: A mother mourns her daughter. At this appointment, Donald Trump declared a national health emergency due to the opioid crisis. (imago / MediaPunch / Alex Edelman)

Opioid pain relievers have killed over half a million people in the United States in the past twenty years. Particularly hard hit: Huntington’s disease in West Virginia. There are more opioid deaths than Covid deaths there during the pandemic. Why?

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