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Public Health Crisis: How the COVID-19 pandemic plays a role in Midstate opioid abuse
YORK, Pa. (WHTM) — The COVID-19 pandemic has consumed the attention of the healthcare industry and the media. But while COVID cases were surging in emergency rooms, so were opioid overdose cases in almost a third of the state, including one Midstate county. Overdose deaths in Pennsylvania are now almost at the level of their …