Saving Millions of Lives by Tackling the Opioid Epidemic

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While we have become quite well versed with the concept of pandemics as of lately due to COVID-19, we often fail to recognize the difference between an epidemic and pandemic. While an epidemic is large, it is also generally contained or expected in its spread, while a pandemic is international and out of control¹. Meaning that at one point COVID-19 was merely an epidemic, but eventually…