As anyone in the addiction community can tell you, drug overdoses were devastatingly common during the pandemic. Anecdotally, people were relapsing in numbers. Many people in sober housing situations and treatment centers were left on their own in the early days of the pandemic. Sadly, this led to many overdoses and deaths. Now, the numbers
In North Dakota, treatment programs are scarce, and clients who need the most help may be scattered throughout the state. Many people in the state need financial assistance so they can go to treatment. A state fund was making that treatment gap close, but it suddenly ran out, and it’s not clear if it will
In almost every area of the country, businesses have slowed and shut down in response to the pandemic. Social isolation is also taking a toll as more people face the uncertainty of the future. Sadly, the federal government has poured some extra money into hospitals without reserving any funds for other victims of the pandemic;
