The initial data points to large increases in drug overdose deaths in states along the East Coast, particularly Maryland, Florida, Pennsylvania and Maine. In Ohio, which filed a lawsuit last week accusing five drug companies of abetting the opioid epidemic, we estimate overdose deaths increased by more than 25 percent in 2016.

Full disclosure: I bought a goddamn gallon of Maker's Mark yesterday.

LA.

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I only have one acquaintance I can think of off the top of my head who died in a car accident in my adult life. On the other hand, I know a handful of people who have died from OD. Where's Nancy Reagan when you need her?


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