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The U.S. is losing more Americans lives to drugs every year than it did in the Vietnam war, the latest government figures show. The number of heroin users spiked 230 percent from 404,000 users in 2002 to 948,000 in 2016, according to a new report by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Adm...

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