The article The Drug Became His Friend’: Pandemic Drives Hike in Opioid Deaths By Hilary Swift and Abby Goodnough is about the surge in opioid related deaths during the pandemic. The article first begins by recanting the last night Jefrey Cameron was alive and how he relapsed during the pandemic after struggling with his seven-year addiction and breaking his three-year Suboxone treatment. He was served a small bag of what he believed to be heroin when in fact it was mostly fentanyl. In the six months since Covid-19 caused the nation to shut down, over 40 states reported a spike in opioid…