“For comparison,” says Philadelphia Health Commissioner Tom Farley, “at the peak of the AIDS epidemic in 1994, we had 935 deaths from AIDS.”
https://www.thenation.com/article/opioid-epidemic-sif-harm-reduction/
By Maia Szalavitz
Day: February 22, 2019
Family Frustrated by Undetermined Cause of Death
Despite the family’s years of lobbying for a second forensic examination by the medical examiner, James Garrow, a spokesman for the city’s Department of Public Health, said there was not enough new information for the office to reopen the investigation into Malik’s death.
By Vinny Vella
The Collected Works of Jim Garrow 