Kastalia Medrano 
CDC: Overdose Deaths Leveled Off in 2022, Still Setting New Record
The United States recorded 107,941 drug overdose deaths in 2022, according to final data ...
Oregon Lawmakers Recriminalize Drugs, Under the Guise of Treatment
On March 1, Oregon legislators approved a bill to recriminalize drug possession, undoing the ...
Many Drug Users Aren’t Protected by “Good Samaritan” Laws
Kansas, one of the last two states without a “Good Samaritan” law for drug ...
Nalmefene Is Not “Just Like Naloxone”
Opvee, an opioid-overdose antidote manufactured by Indivior that was approved in 2023, has in ...
You Can Definitely Misuse Naloxone, If You’re a Cop
Cops seem to have decided that ever since fentanyl came into the illicit drug ...
WA Advances Fentanyl-Detecting K-9s—and Police Immunity From Damages
Washington State has advanced a bill to train drug-sniffing dogs to detect fentanyl—and limit ...
White House Issues Very Soft Call for Prisoner Access to OUD Meds
The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) released its first press ...
The DEA Made a “Fentanyl Facts” Quiz. Let’s See How They Did.
One of the weirder things to come out of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) ...
More K-12 Schools Receiving Narcan, If Not the Best Education About It
As of January 6, all New York City public schools are required to carry ...
Stimulant Treatment Research Finally Uses Outcome Besides Abstinence
To whatever degree harm reduction has gotten mainstreamed, it still hasn’t budged the meaning ...
