Tag: overdose crisis
Fatal Overdose Fell 26 Percent in 2024, the Largest Decrease Ever Recorded
Overdose deaths in the United States dropped dramatically between 2023 and 2024, with decreases ...
Delayed CDC Data Show the Drop in Overdose Deaths Has Slowed Down
On January 14 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published its monthly provisional ...
Judge Offers Baltimore $100 million for OD Crisis—Far Less Than City Sought
A judge has offered Baltimore $100 million for opioid abatement efforts in a landmark ...
Judge Rejects Baltimore’s $5.2 Billion Lawsuit Request to Address OD Crisis
A judge has rejected Baltimore’s request for $5.2 billion in abatement money in a ...
Overdose Deaths Fell in 2024: What’s Driving This, and Will It Last?
The latest national overdose figures from the CDC, released May 14, show that deaths ...
RFK Jr. Is Headlining the Rx and Illicit Drug Summit. This Doesn’t Bode Well.
On April 21, the first day of the 14th annual Rx and Illicit Drug ...
BC Enters 10th Year of Overdose Crisis, as It Shutters Harm Reduction Policies
As people gathered in Vancouver’s Victory Square on April 14 to mark nine years ...
CDC: Overdose Deaths Now Down 24 Percent, Back to Pre-Pandemic Crisis
An estimated 86,882 people in the United States died of overdose between October 2023 ...
“It’s Very Real”—Harm Reduction Research Facing DOGE Funding Cuts
As Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) take a chainsaw to federal ...
A White House Invite for OD Prevention… Then They Shut Me Out
I have been homeless. I have been addicted to heroin. I have spent a ...
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