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Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Fact of the Day

In 2017, drug overdoses became the leading cause of death for Americans younger than 50 years old, and the opioid epidemic, yet to reach its apex, has already claimed more lives than the AIDS epidemic did at its peak in the 1990s.
Posted by John at 5:43 PM
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