It has been widely reported that the country is suffering from a huge annual number of drug OD deaths of late, with opioids, especially fentanyl, being the prime suspects. In May the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released provisional data that showed over 100,000 Americans had died from drug overdoses in 2022. But there has been far less reporting about a program in New Jersey that was developed to fight the OD scourge.
Under that program, anyone 14 years of age or older can walk into a participating pharmacy in the Garden State and walk…
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