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Opioid overdoses spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic, data from Pennsylvania show

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par Brian King, Professor, Department of Geography, Penn State
Andrea Rishworth, Postdoctoral Fellow in Geography, McMaster University
Ruchi Patel, Ph.D. Student in Geography, Penn State

Since the first diagnosed case of COVID-19 in the United States on Jan. 20, 2020, news about infection rates, deaths and pandemic-driven economic hardships has been part of our daily lives.

But there is a knowledge gap in how COVID-19 has affected a public health crisis that existed before the pandemic: the opioid epidemic. Prior to 2020, an average of 128 Americans died every day from an opioid overdose. That trend

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