The disruption in the illegal opioid trade had varying impacts around the country. As stay-at-home orders lift, that creates different risks of overdose that public health is trying to manage.
Dhillon says some of the normal transit routes, through Asia or South America, have shut down. He also points to dramatic decreases in car and foot traffic to and from Mexico, the main source of America's heroin.
"No one's out on the street; it's just not out there," says MacEachern, who runs a Salvation Army residential drug recovery program there. A decreased supply of drugs might sound good. But it also increases the risk of overdoses in the future, especially as many states reopen for business.
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