Mother of Addicts Says US Could Avert Record Overdose Deaths if Issue Treated as Epidemic

WASHINGTON (Sputnik), Ekaterina Chukaeva - For years the United States has been battling substance abuse, but has so far failed to address it as an epidemic, which led to record overdose deaths during the first year of COVID-19 lockdowns, Garnet Druhot-Close, a mother of three addicts and an activist, said.