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staff

SPH Selects Winners of Dean’s Innovation Challenge

March 14, 2025

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."

Epidemiology

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

June 6, 2024

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Alumni

Q&A with Alum Danielle McPeak

January 26, 2024

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research

Allied Against Addiction: Lessons from the HEALing Communities Study

January 19, 2024