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Original post: Newswise - Drug and Drug Abuse Adolescent drug overdose deaths rose exponentially for the first time in history during the COVID pandemic
The rate of overdose deaths among U.S. teenagers nearly doubled in 2020, the first year of the COVID pandemic, and rose another 20% in the first half of 2021 compared with the 10 years before the pandemic, even as drug use remained generally stable during the same period.