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U.S. drug overdose deaths rise 30% to record during pandemic

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-drug-overdose-deaths-ris...

Sure, but that's a different country to the one that the article is talking about. That country has a different safety net, a different strategy for managing the virus, and a different set of vaccines available to it.

Australia shouldn't give up on its strategy of COVID eradication just because American drug overdoses are up.

How does that apply to Australia?

Why do think Australia is exception when it comes to mental health?

US drug overdose deaths were such a huge outlier before COVID, that people were talking of an opiate pandemic. As usual it's America that's the exception.

A statement about US drug deaths says nothing about what happened in Australia.

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