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The contents of a Narcan first aid kit are shown. (Michelle Mengsu Chang/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

A gentler drug overdose reversal

Claire Zagorski
Therapy appointment with a teenage patient (Getty Images/fotostorm)

The link between trauma and addiction

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Tests strips, used to detect the presence of fentanyl and xylazine in different kinds of drugs, such as cocaine, methamphetamine, and heroin, lay next to a bag of heroin at St. Ann's Corner of Harm Reduction in New York City on May 25, 2023. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

Overdose deaths continue to decline: CDC

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Manager of overdose prevention secures covers on returned full sharps containers at the 6th Street Harm Reduction Center operated by the SF AIDS Foundation in San Francisco, Calif. on Friday, June 2, 2017. (Paul Chinn/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

Overdose crisis takes toll on responders

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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Carrie Hankins, of Jefferson County Public Health, holds a Fentanyl test strip during an event held at Lakewood Library on August 25, 2022 in Lakewood, Colorado. (RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Lawmakers buy into fentanyl touch myth

Claire Zagorski, Ryan Marino
U. S. Senator Charles Schumer speaks while holding photo of bottle with drug Xylazine during the briefing at 875 3rd Avenue lobby in Manhattan on drug Xylazine linked to overdose deaths. (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Why banning this drug could backfire

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Puppet master hand, manipulation, concept (Getty Images/tatianazaets)

How to stop the rise of forced drug use

Jerel Ezell, Heather Phillips
Police | Narcan (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

After drug busts, drug overdoses soar

Nicole Karlis
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Empty xylazine bottle found on the streets of Philadelphia (Christopher Moraff / Narcomedia)

What is xylazine?

Kavita Babu - The Conversation
At Lehman High School in Kyle, Texas, a poster warns about the dangers of fentanyl. Four students in the Hays Consolidated Independent School District, south of Austin, died from fentanyl overdoses in July and August. (Colleen DeGuzman/KHN)

When fentanyl came to a Texas school

Colleen DeGuzman
Rapper Kanye West speaks during his meeting with US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 11, 2018. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Cops killed George Floyd — not fentanyl

Troy Farah
In this photo taken Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2018, Linda Montel shows off supplies on a check in desk at Safer Inside, a realistic model of a safe injection site in San Francisco. The model is an example of a supervised, indoor location where intravenous drug users can consume drugs in safer conditions and access treatment and recovery services. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

It’s time for drug policy reform

Louise Arbour, Geoff Gallop, Miriam Aroni Krinsky
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Why stimulant-related deaths are spiking

Phillip Smith - Independent Media Institute
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Suicide by opioid

Rachel Bluth - KFF Health News
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A deadly combo

Mike Adams - The Fresh Toast
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here's how to reduce opioids

Phillip Smith - Alternet
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FILE - In this Feb. 18, 1985 file photo, Prince performs at the Forum in Inglewood, Calif. A year after Prince died of an accidental drug overdose, his Paisley Park studio complex and home is now a museum and concert venue. Fans can now stream most of his classic albums, and a remastered "Purple Rain" album is due out in June 2017 along with two albums of unreleased music and two concert films from his vault. (AP Photo/Liu Heung Shing, File) (AP)

Prince death ongoing mystery

Max Cea
(AP/Mel Evans)

Samuel Banister, Axel Adams, Roy Gerona - The Conversation
Prince (Reuters/Lucas Jackson)

AP: Prince died of overdose

Kevin Burbach
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Sarah Gray
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Prachi Gupta
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LePage to nix lifesaving drugs

Elias Isquith
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Prachi Gupta
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Stephen Engelberg, Robin Fields - ProPublica
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