Michael Curci

El Dorado Community Health Center patient

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Patient at El Dorado Community Health Center in the Sacramento area.

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More than 70,000 people died in the U.S. from drug overdoses in 2017. More than two-thirds of them involved opioids. The numbers from 2018 appear to be just as bad.

Some California ERs treat drug addiction like any other disease

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