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    STAT+: Q&A: Nora Volkow on how to get ‘at least 50% less people dying’ from opioid overdose

    "We’ve generated, in our country, a very different system for treating people that have problems with addiction, versus the health care system that treats everything else," says NIDA's Nora Volkow.
    by Lev Facher Mar 05, 2024 1 minute
    Nora Volkow: "We would have at least 50% less people dying. Why do I say this? Because we have a precedent."

    In 2003, the year Nora Volkow was appointed director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, roughly 13,000 Americans died of

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