On March 5, 2024, Lev Facher of STATNews reports on the desolate state of the US response to over 1 million drug overdose deaths in an extensively reported piece “How the U.S. is sabotaging its best tools to prevent deaths in the opioid epidemic”
I recommend reading it and I’ll share my take. It’s a report all the more discouraging because I have been blunt about the imbalanced US policy response since 2016, with harms jointly accruing to both people with addiction and people with pain.
The topline from STATNews is this: