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Overdose deaths in state spiked by 40% in 2020, DHHS says

By Lightning Reports, Published: March 22, 2022

An average of nine North Carolinians died each day from a drug overdose in 2020, a 40 percent increase from the previous year, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services announced Monday.

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