Denmark and Finland, the chart tells us, started out with one of the worst problems in the group, but then things got better. Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia have a steadily worsening crisis, but their overall numbers still lag behind the world leaders. And do you see that tangle of gray lines at the very bottom that barely rise above the zero mark? That’s Austria, Italy, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland. They never had an opioid crisis at all. Only one country has had a truly catastrophic experience with opioid overdose—the country represented by
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