Unfortunately we had an incredibly deadly (opioid) epidemic long before #covid19, and many of the gains we’d made were erased in 2020. We MUST walk & chew gum at same time!
With Biden Team Focused On Other Crises, Experts Say Drug Epidemic Exploding : NPR npr.org/2021/01/29/960…
With Biden Team Focused On Other Crises, Experts Say Drug Epidemic Exploding : NPR npr.org/2021/01/29/960…
The #COVID19 & opioid epidemics are converging to create an even deadlier “syndemic.” “Quarantine too closely resembles addiction -- staying indoors, avoiding others... that was my life when I was drinking and drugging, and that's what the CDC recommends we all do every day...” 
Unfortunately the only thing a new administration has done so far in this space is eliminate a tool doctors have been begging for to help them fight the opioid epidemic for years. We can’t afford to trade lives here (especially not for political payback).
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People may think this is political on my part - it’s not. I spent much of my tenure as Surgeon General meeting with mothers and fathers who lost their sons and daughters to overdose, to let this go unsaid. We can’t ignore the mental health crisis in U.S. r COVIDs impact on it.
And as many people know, I’ve had VERY personal experience in this space, and have been a part of this fight personally and professionally for a LONG time...
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