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Opioid epidemic shares chilling similarities with past drug crises

NEW YORK (AP) - While declaring the opioid crisis a national public health emergency Thursday, President Donald Trump said: "Nobody has seen anything like what's going on now." ... , an outcast in a society of outcasts. He is regarded as a fool by heroin addicts, as insane and violent by those using psychedelics and marijuana, and a ‘bust' by non-drug using hustlers," wrote Dr. Roger Smith ...{C}

 

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