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Experts say GOP plans to empower police would make the overdose crisis much more deadly.

While prescription painkillers and heroin drove an overdose epidemic last decade, the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl now causes most drug deaths.

Biden’s recent budget request includes $355 million in additional funding for the Drug Enforcement Administration.

Lynn Sutfin LANSING – The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) has partnered with Vital Strategies to launch a media campaign to promote the critical importance of harm reduction services in Michigan’s response to the opioid epidemic. As part of Michigan’s comprehensive opioid strategy, the harm reduction component includes expanding the availability of naloxone and access to syringe service programs (SSPs). Naloxone can save lives by reversing the effects of opioid-related drug poisonings or overdoses. SSPs are agencies that offer clients compassionate, judgement-fr...

MDHHS launches new $900,000 'real-life' ad campaign for opioid addiction By Jack Nissen LANSING, Mich. - Michigan's health department is rolling out a new media campaign aimed toward drug users in hopes of better connecting them to services geared at harm reduction. A kit of Naloxone, a heroin antidote that can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose, is displayed at a press conference about a new community prevention program for heroin overdoses in New York City. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images) The near-million dollar launch arrives as twin public health crises from the opioid epide...