WATCH: @sam_baker + @TreedinDC discuss how COVID-19 has exacerbated America’s opioid crisis in conversations with @SenCapito + @NIDAnews Director Nora Volkow.
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.@SenCapito on refocusing on the opioid crisis: "We just need to really focus on what's working and what doesn't work. We need to just move it on the wayside and say that didn't work, it doesn't work, and let's put the money where it does work." 
@sam_baker @TreedinDC @SenCapito @NIDAnews .@SenCapito: "I think what we saw with the COVID reaction is what we need to be doing...that's prevention and education that is starting at the lowest levels of our grade schools and junior highs to talk about the consequences of drugs, to talk about what can happen."
.@NIDAnews Director Nora Volkow: "In 2020, we've seen a 30 percent increase in the number of people that have died from overdoses from various types of drugs. The main culprits are opioids, of which the main driver is the very potent synthetic drug, fentanyl."
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