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Across the state on Wednesday, events are being held to commemorate International Overdose Awareness Day in Tennessee. State data showed in 2020, more than 3,000 Tennesseans died of drug overdoses, a 45% jump in deaths from 2019 and the largest yearly increase on record. Edmond Strickling, a police officer and member of the Police Activities League in Nashville, said there is an abundance of misinformation on fentanyl. ...

With more than a billion in opioid settlement dollars coming to Ohio, advocates argued it must be directed to evidence-based strategies. Ohio ranked fourth among states in 2020 for drug overdose mortality, with a majority of deaths caused by opioids. Beth Macy, a journalist, wrote the best-selling book "Dopesick," which examined the origins of the opioid epidemic. ...