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. 2020 Sep:83:102819.
doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2020.102819. Epub 2020 Jun 11.

The perfect storm: COVID-19, mass incarceration and the opioid epidemic

Trena I Mukherjee  1 , Nabila El-Bassel  2
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The perfect storm: COVID-19, mass incarceration and the opioid epidemic

Trena I Mukherjee et al. Int J Drug Policy. 2020 Sep.
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Declaration of Competing Interests All authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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