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When the coronavirus pandemic fades, Biden will confront a resurgent drug epidemic Lenny Bernstein A 2-week-old boy is being mentored in a neonatal intensive care unit s isolation room for opioid withdrawal at the CAMC Women and Children s Hospital on June 28, 2019, in Charleston, W.Va. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post) Even as the coronavirus pandemic rages, the U.S. drug overdose epidemic is surging, largely unnoticed but heading toward record levels in a year already marked by 300,000 covid-19 deaths. After a plateau that stretched from early 2018 to early 2019, overdose deaths resumed their rise in the second half of last year and are accelerating, according to provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In April, they approached a rate of almost 80,000 annually, a 12.3 percent increase over a year earlier.

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