The Sackler family reaches a settlement as the opioid crisis persists.
“A lot of the public health experts I talked to think this will move the needle. It's not going to solve it … but it is something.”
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“A lot of the public health experts I talked to think this will move the needle. It's not going to solve it … but it is something.”
The Biden administration will use data from EMS first responders to track overdoses. The focus will be on improving response to a public health crisis that kills more than 100,000 Americans annually.
There were a record number of fatal drug overdoses in the U.S. in 2021. The Biden administration says it is making progress slowing the rate of deaths linked to fentanyl.
People are right to be scared about fentanyl, but GOP fearmongering isn’t helping.
It’s hard to overstate the drug’s danger, but you can mislabel the causes.