Crime researchers use murder (or homicide) rate per 100,000 as a crude measure of the general level of violent interpersonal crime globally. According to the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime, ...

Crime researchers use murder (or homicide) rate per 100,000 as a crude measure of the general level of violent interpersonal ...

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Two leading drug experts set out a road map to reverse the opioid epidemic in 2016. This is how we've progressed since then.

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