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Increases in opioid overdoses in Pennsylvania varied by county during the COVID-19 pandemic

  • Written by Brian King, Professor of Geography, Penn State
Increases in opioid overdoses in Pennsylvania varied by county during the COVID-19 pandemicPills are one of the more common ways of ingesting opioids.AP Photo/Keith Srakocic

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.

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The COVID-19 pandemic intensified the opioid epidemic, according to our new research, which finds that opioid overdoses increased in Pennsylvania in 2020 compared with 2018 and 2019.

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