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  "textContent": "With the drop in overdose deaths, “we're celebrating: a death toll that exceeds total American combat fatalities in Vietnam, every single year,” writes addiction researcher Wayne Kepner.",
  "title": "Opinion: America must not learn to live with 72,000 overdose deaths a year",
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