The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the crisis driven by fentanyl and fake online pills.
Experts say people with substance use disorders have been hit hard by daily life disruptions, while authorities are seizing record numbers of counterfeit and sometimes deadly medicines from Mexico.
But there were signs that the explosion was tapering, with the 2021 increase half what it was a year ago. Overdose deaths rose 30 percent from 2019 to 2020. Survey figures from 2020 showed that among the 41.1 million people who needed treatment for substance use disorders , only 2.7 million had received treatment at a specialty facility in the last year.
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