Washignton Post
Author: opiodlearning
New opioids, more powerful than fentanyl, are discovered in D.C. amid deadly wave of overdoses
The drugs could worsen the District’s record-breaking death toll during the pandemic. Read More
100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 12 months during the pandemic
The federal government announced that more than 100,000 people had died of overdoses between April 2020 and April 2021. It is the first time that drug-related deaths have reached six figures in any 12-month period.
The US Faces a Naloxone Shortage at the Worst Possible Time
As fatal overdoses reached their highest recorded levels last year: 93,00 an unfathomable related crisis looms. Drug maker reports a national shortage of naloxone, the “antidote” to opioid overdose, reporting its injectable naloxone formulation as “depleted. Read the Story
