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The Continuing Partisan Divide in the Opioid Epidemic

JAMA Network Open 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.54322

January 16, 2026 at 11:00 AM EST

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Corresponding Author: Harold A. Pollack, MPP, PhD, Crown Family School of Social Work Policy and Practice, University of Chicago 969 E 60 St, Chicago, IL 60637 (haroldp@uchicago.edu).

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