Media Articles

Opioid Use Disorder

The New York Times

• Not Everyone Is Benefiting From Drops in Overdose Deaths 12/2/24

• The Simple Stories About the Opioid Epidemic Are Wrong 9/25/24

• How Fentanyl Drove A Tsunami of Death in America 9/27/24

  • What’s Behind the Remarkable Drop in U.S. Overdose Deaths 11/21/24

  • Canadian Police Say They Dismantled Country’s Largest Drug Lab 11/1/24

    • A major fentanyl lab bust in Canada, highlighting international trafficking trends.

  • Why Miami’s Approach to Addiction Is Working 6/6/24

Stateline

• Overdose deaths are rising among Black and Indigenous Americans 10/29/24

Reuters

• The Fentanyl Express – A two-part series on the illicit fentanyl supply chain:

  • We bought everything needed to make $3 million worth of fentanyl – Demonstrates how easy it is to procure fentanyl precursors online.

  • How fentanyl traffickers are exploiting a U.S. trade law to kill Americans – Explores how traffickers misuse legal loopholes to ship fentanyl into the U.S. https://www.thefp.com/p/rebuilding-hazard-kentucky-sam-quinones

Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering

• Fatal Opioid Overdoses lower US life expectancy by nearly a year, study finds 7/30/24

Statista

• Opioids More Likely to Kill Than Car Crashes or Suicide 8/30/24

DEA

• Fourteen Indicted in Multi-State Drug Trafficking Conspiracy Linked to Deadly Fentanyl Distributed to Members of the Lummi Nation in Washington 10/3/24

Cascadia

• https://www.cascadiadaily.com/2023/apr/18/instantly-addicted-fentanyl-takes-a-deadly-toll-on-whatcom-families/