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Police in East Liverpool, Ohio released an image of a couple overdosed in the front seat with their son in the back seat of their car. Liverpool, Ohio Police Department

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A Huge Step Backward on Opioids

by eNews Park Forest on January 25, 2018

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drug overdose — Police in East Liverpool, Ohio released an image of a couple overdosed in the front seat with their son in the back seat of their car. Liverpool, Ohio Police Department

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 25, 2018

By: Michael Collins, Drug Policy Alliance

(CNN) The latest statistics on the overdose crisis — roughly 64,000 deathsin the United States in 2016 — also reveal that fentanyl and other synthetic opioids are now the driving force behind US overdose…