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Opioid epidemic causing rise in hepatitis C infections and other serious illnesses

  • Written by Thomas J. Stopka, Assistant Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University
imageDiscarded used hypodermic needles along the Merrimack River in Lowell, Massachusetts.Charles Krupa/AP Photos

Many Americans now know that, over the past decade, opioid addiction and deaths from opioid overdose in the U.S. have skyrocketed.

But we don’t hear as often about the other epidemics intertwined with this public health crisis. In rural...

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