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Since 2010, nearly 67,000 people in Arizona have required emergency room care for opioid-related overdoses and illnesses. (Photo by Johanna Huckeba/Cronkite News)

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PHOENIX – They arrive day and night through the automatic sliding doors of Arizona’s emergency rooms – thousands of patients overdosing on everything from oxycodone to hydrocodone, fentanyl to heroin. Every year, their numbers grow larger, their addiction more dangerous.

By By JOSHUA BOWLING Cronkite News January 17, 2017
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