Coronavirus: Spike in overdoses shows the hidden horror of America's pandemic

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There has been a 48% increase in overdoses in the US since last year, thought to be triggered by the pandemic.

At St Vincent's Hospital in Westchester, New York, a division of St Joseph's Medical Centre, I saw the cruel reality of that first hand.Eric's mother blames his death on the pandemic. Pic: Jenny Stasikewich

"He had his birthday on 9 April and on 5 May he passed away from a drug overdose," his mother told me with devastating starkness. He is, she says,"collateral damage" and she wants him to be counted as part of the official death toll of COVID-19.Dr Christopher Aloezos, medical director at St Vincent's Outpatient Addiction Programme, said:"Lots of our patients are experiencing grief and loss unexpectedly - loss of a job, family member and purpose and identity.Despite the difficulties posed by COVID-19, St Vincent's was able to keep admitting in-patients and out-patients at the height of the pandemic.

 

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Terrible life is so awful and unbearable people take to the drugs to escape we witness it in the uk a broken nation riddled with poverty deprivation homelessness unemployment foodbanks now folks try to anaesthetise themselves from the horrors.

America? What about the UK? When govts going to realise that our behaviours are different now. We are more hygienic now! More aware. We test positive, we isolate, we don't super-spread anymore. Don't threaten more cases more lockdowns! Open up!!

God bless America!!

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