There were an estimated 100,306 drug overdose deaths in the United States in 2021. That’s a 28.5 percent increase from the 78,056 in 2020.
Dominick Sansone
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Dominick Sansone is a doctoral student at the Hillsdale College Van Andel Graduate School of Statesmanship. He is a regular contributor to The Epoch Times, and has additionally been published at The American Conservative, The Federalist, and the Washington Examiner.