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Editor’s note: In the final installment of a four-part series, WyoFile looks at solutions for battling the ongoing opioid crisis.

A dangerous chemical called xylazine is being mixed into fentanyl across the U.S., but who's doing it and why is a mystery. The government still doesn't identify and track new drug threats.

A dangerous chemical called xylazine is being mixed into fentanyl across the U.S., but who's doing it and why is a mystery. The government still doesn't identify and track new drug threats.

Editors note: In the final installment of a four-part series, WyoFile looks at solutions for battling the ongoing opioid crisis.

In the first of a four-part series, WyoFile looks at EMS data suggesting a sharp January increase in overdoses, and why that information wasn’t made public.

Editor’s note: In the second of a four-part series, WyoFile looks at how the potent synthetic opioid is killing more people and how the state’s county-by-county coroner system tracks its

Synthetic opioids like fentanyl are increasing nonfatal and fatal drug overdoses nationwide. In 2022, Wyoming reported that 93 people died from a drug overdose. Fourty-eight of those involved fentanyl. After months of investigations, requesting data, and coming up dry, WyoFile reporter Madelyn Beck has come out with a four part series on what data the state collects and how that data is lacking. Wyoming Public Radio’s Kamila Kudelska asked what was the question that started it all.

In the second of a four-part series, WyoFile looks at how the potent synthetic opioid is killing more people and how the state’s county-by-county coroner system tracks its impact.

In the final installment of our four-part series, WyoFile looks at solutions for battling the ongoing opioid crisis.

In the first of a four-part series, WyoFile looks at EMS data suggesting a sharp January increase in overdoses, and why that information wasn’t made public.