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July 19, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – When assessing the economic and healthcare impacts of the coronavirus, we often fail to recognize the massive collateral damage from the long months of lockdowns, business closures, anxiety and fear that spread across our nation in 2020.
According to the latest Center for Disease Control and Prevention data:
From January to December 2020, there were 93,331 drug overdose deaths
An average of 256 Americans died every day from drug overdoses — the most in U.S. history.
We were told by our leaders that mask wearing and social isolation of the young and healthy, as well as the medically vulnerable, was essential to curb the spread of the virus. But did we fail to take into account the ongoing cost of this disruption in normal human, family and community relationships?
Author Johann Hari spent close to four years and traveled 30,000 miles crossing the globe to learn more about the problem of drug addiction. He shares about his experience in the book Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days
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