The increase of nearly 15% followed a much steeper rise of almost 30% in 2020, an unrelenting crisis that has consumed federal and state drug policy officials.
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The number of drug overdose deaths has increased every year but 2018 since the 1970s. Drug overdoses, which long ago surged above the country’s peak deaths from AIDS, car crashes and guns, killed about one-quarter as many Americans last year as COVID-19. Deaths from both classes of drugs have been rising in recent years. But there is growing evidence that mixing stimulants and opioids — into combinations known as “speedballs” and “goofballs” — is growing more common, too. Dan Ciccarone, a professor of family and community medicine at UCSF, who studies drug markets, has just begun a multiyear study of the combination of opioids and meth.
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