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A photo of Makayla Cox, who died of a fentanyl overdose at age 16, is displayed among other portraits on "The Faces of Fentanyl" wall, which displays photos of Americans who died from a fentanyl overdose, at the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, on July 13, 2022. - America's opioid crisis has reached catastrophic proportions, with over 80,000 people dying of opioid overdoses last year, most of them due to illicit synthetics such as fentanyl -- more than seven times the number a decade ago. "This is the most dangerous epidemic that weve seen," said Ray Donovan, chief of operations at the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). "Fentanyl is not like any other illicit narcotic, its that deadly instantaneously."

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One-third of US Adults Know Someone Who Has Died from Drug Overdose

June 6, 2024

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Second 2024 SPH Alum Receives Fulbright Award

June 6, 2024

public health communication

Alum Receives 2024 Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellowship

June 6, 2024

Postcard from the Bay State Birth Coalition

maternal and child health

A Persistent Fight for Fair Childbirth in Massachusetts

June 6, 2024

Polarization In US Politics and divided America political symbol for government dysfunction in the United States as a two party system election.

politics and health

Excluding Partisanship Questions from Public Health Surveys ‘Limits Our Capacity for Advancing Population Health and Health Equity’

June 4, 2024

More than friendship between two women. Multicultural love without boundaries.

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Majority of Youth Are Willing to Answer Questions About Their Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity

May 31, 2024

Boston University School of Public Health Talbot Building with light bokeh

dean's note

This Pride Month, Reaffirming the Dignity of LGBTQIA+ Populations

May 31, 2024

Aisha Ghorashian stands on a sidewalk smiling at the camera, she is wearing a leather jacket and white and blue blouse

queer alliance

‘Pride is More Than Just One Month’

May 30, 2024

Stripes on the gown of an SPH DrPH graduate

Practice

Two Decades of Innovation in Public Health Leadership: SPH’s DrPH Program Turns 20

May 24, 2024

Julie Motti-Santiago, Christine Silva, and Adriana Black, winners of the annual Maternal and Child Health Alumni Awards

Maternal and Child Health Center of Excellence

Maternal and Child Health Alums Honored at 24th Annual Networking and Alumni Reception

May 24, 2024