Name: Fighting an opioid overdose epidemic during a pandemic
Uploaded: 2020-09-17T12:31:41.000Z
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Description: The opioid crisis was a problem in British Columbia before the COVID-19 pandemic, but combined with an unsafe drug supply and fewer safe injection sites, the crisis has become an overdose epidemic.

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