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Topic: Overdoses

Narcan and fentanyl test strips are available for free at the Brockton Neighborhood Health Center. (Photo by John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Fighting Trump’s harm reduction cuts

Niko Vorobyov
Paramedics carrying patient in ambulance at night (Getty Images/Cavan Images)

How Oregon's drug policy impact overdose

Elizabeth Hlavinka
CAPITOL BUILDING, ALBANY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - 2023/01/31: Participants seen holding signs at the event. VOCAL-NY gathered at The War Room in the New York State Capitol with allies, including members of Drug Policy Alliance, OnPoint NYC, P.A.I.N Sackler, Housing Works and staff from the nations first Overdose Prevention Centers, for a press conference to push back against Governor Hochuls proposed plans to increase criminalization to address the overdose crisis, and demand lawmakers implement harm reduction strategies that -in their opinion- will actually save lives. (Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images) (Getty Images )

Criminalization makes the drug war worse

Jennifer Carroll
A small bag of straight Fentanyl on display at the State Crime Lab at the Ohio Attorney General's headquarters of the Bureau of Criminal Investigation. (Ty Wright for/ For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

An epidemic of fentanyl misinformation

Troy Farah
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At a half way house for recovering addicts, supervisors who are in recovery themselves use a fentanyl strip to test for drugs in the urine of a fellow resident on March 22, 2019. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

Why fentanyl is so deadly

Kavita Babu - The Conversation
At a half way house for recovering addicts, supervisors who are in recovery themselves use a fentanyl strip to test for drugs in the urine of a fellow resident on March 22, 2019. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

Decriminalizing fentanyl testing strips

Andy Miller - KFF Health News
Used hypodermic needles are seen in a bin at the India Street Public Health Center Needle Exchange in Portland, Maine. (Joel Page/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)

We're treating addiction all wrong

Ryan Hampton
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