Drug overdose deaths are at a record high. Here's what the White House plans to do Harm reduction is one of four policies the Biden administration says must be immediately implemented in order to address the record high number of overdose deaths.
Black Americans are now dying from drug overdoses at a higher rate than whites New research shows drug overdose deaths continue to surge among Black Americans. For the first time since 1999, Black Americans are dying at a higher rate per capita than white Americans.
Morning Edition 4 U.S. companies will pay $26 billion to settle claims they fueled the opioid crisis The companies, including Johnson & Johnson and McKesson, will admit no wrongdoing. Billions of dollars in payouts will fund drug treatment and harm reduction programs.
Native American tribes reach a tentative opioid settlement with J&J and distributors Johnson & Johnson, AmerisourceBergen, McKesson and Cardinal Health will pay $590 million to Native American tribes under a proposed settlement for the companies' role in the opioid crisis.
More than a million Americans have died from overdoses during the opioid epidemic New research released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found roughly 932,000 fatal overdoses from 1999-2020. Preliminary data show another 100,000 deaths this year.
A brain circuit linking pain and breathing may offer a path to prevent opioid deaths Opioids can kill because they reduce breathing along with pain. Now brain scientists have made a discovery that could lead to potent pain drugs that don't affect breathing.
KUOW Newsroom A cautionary tale of teen fentanyl abuse prompts advice for parents and friends 'They were telling her, essentially, to hold the line, to cut off their son, and she didn't.'
KUOW Newsroom A Seattle teen quit smoking fentanyl. Every morning he thanks God he’s alive “I spent a lot of time thinking that I was the cool guy,” he says, sitting on his parents’ couch in northwest Seattle. “But now I go get a shot in my butt every month and I go to AA, you know what I mean? It's humbling.”
KUOW Newsroom Fentanyl is a great drug for cartels. But those blue pills are killing King County Fentanyl pills are often called blues, and they’re on sale everywhere. It’s just gotten so easy to make and smuggle fentanyl that it’s flooding the illegal drug market in this area – and killing people – more than ever.
New York City allows the nation's 1st supervised consumption sites for illegal drugs Mayor Bill DeBlasio says these "overdose prevention centers" will reduce drug overdoses in New York City. Similar efforts in other U.S. cities face legal challenges.
