Overdoses Are Up, But Do We Really Need Just More Residential Beds?

By David Mee-Lee, M.D. 

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently published a Vital Statistics Rapid Release document that showed overdose deaths during the pandemic rose to the highest levels since the opioid epidemic began:

“at least 87,000 people died of a drug overdose in America” in the 12-month period ending last September, “an increase of 27% from the previous 12 months and a record for the most such deaths in a single year.”
In that same period, “deaths attributed to synthetic opioids, mainly fentanyl, increased 53% nationwide.”

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