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Did you know?
June 18 2021 Issue
From the Seneca Arts & Learning Center (SALC) • DID YOU KNOW that according to the CDC more than 750,000 people have died since 1999 from a drug overdose? Two out of three drug overdose deaths in 2018 involved an opioid.• DID YOU KNOW that according to the US Department of Human Services in 2019, […]