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US Excess Deaths Continued to Rise Even After the COVID-19 Pandemic

Erin Johnston
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Student Receives 2025 Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellowship

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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
Headshot of Stephen Murray wearing a t-shirt that reads "Massachusetts Overdose Prevention Helpline 1-800-972-0590"
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Alum Directs First State-Funded Hotline to Prevent Fatal Overdoses

February 3, 2024
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Post-overdose Programs May Lower Opioid-related Death Rates

March 16, 2023
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Student Uses Harm Reduction to Tackle Overdose Crisis

September 22, 2021
The Opioid Epidemic within the COVID Epidemic
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The Opioid Epidemic within the COVID Epidemic

October 28, 2020
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Rural Gun Suicide Risks Shaped by Socioeconomic and Environmental Factors

October 1, 2020
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Student Wins Best Research Abstract Award

November 21, 2019
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Workplace Injuries Contribute to Rise in Suicide, Overdose Deaths

July 22, 2019
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People at Risk of Overdose Willing to Use Safe Consumption Spaces

June 13, 2019
Community Health Sciences

Nearly 1 in 20 Massachusetts Residents Has Opioid Use Disorder

October 26, 2018

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